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Govt. agency closed by DOGE looked like a palace inside, with oil paintings fit for a KING…
By newseditors // 2025-03-25
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In case you’re wondering where your hard-earned tax dollars are going, this exclusive story from the Daily Mail will help connect the dots for you, and boy oh boy, is it a doozy. As it turns out, your money isn’t just wasted — it’s being used to turn useless government agencies into palace-like playgrounds for pampered bureaucrats. (Article republished from Revolver.news) Bet that will help you sleep better at night, right? Well, the good news is that this is one of the seven federal agencies just closed by DOGE and President Trump. And it was so incredibly corrupt, so cartoonishly wasteful, that it’s actually difficult to believe that it was even real. But, oh, it was real. Very real. And once you hear how these people dwelled in their government palace, you’ll understand why the swamp is terrified right now. Luke Rosiak, an excellent investigative journalist for The Daily Wire, put together a must-read thread highlighting key parts of his exposé. So, without further ado, let’s dive into the ultimate government grift—the now-defunct Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service (FMCS). Here’s the Cliffnotes version of Luke’s thread, which we’ll link to below: The Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service (FMCS) was supposed to be a voluntary mediation agency between unions and management—but in reality? It was nothing more than a luxury slush fund for bureaucrats to live like royalty. Before the pandemic, FMCS operated out of a nine-story tower on K Street—for just 60 employees. But instead of doing any real work, these people:
  • Lined their hallways with oil paintings of themselves, plus artwork purchased from the boss’s wife.
  • Turned their office into a luxury lounge, complete with an in-house gym, smoking lounge, and in-office showers.
  • Lived rent-free in DC by listing their “top employee” as being on a six-year business trip—so taxpayers covered his rent and meals indefinitely.
  • Funneled $1,500-a-day contracts to friends and handed out jobs to relatives.
  • Used government credit cards to buy jewelry, pay for personal cable bills, and cover phone plans for their spouses.
  • Expensed a personal storage unit—which, get this, was used to store photo albums of someone’s dog, Buster.
But it gets worse. FMCS fired investigators and auditors when they sounded the alarm on this blatant corruption. And in one of the most audacious moves yet? An employee even leased a BMW—on the taxpayers’ dime. Luke Rosiak:
One of the 7 federal agencies shuttered by DOGE on Friday is the most DOGE-able agency of all time. FMCS (before the pandemic!) had a 9-story K Street tower for 60 employees. Its halls were lined with oil paintings of those employees, and other art purchased from the boss’s wife It used its office tower as a luxury lounge for employees, with an in-house gym, smoking lounge, and in-office showers. It listed its top employee as being on a six-year-long business trip to DC, so he’d have his rent & all meals paid for, just for showing up to work. It steered $1,500-a-day contracts to friends, and jobs to relatives. Its employees “unblocked” abuse protections on their purchase cards, and used them to spend $18,000 at a jewelry store, their wife’s cell phone, and cable at their vacation home. FMCS existed as a slush fund for employees to live luxury lives. There was no expense they wouldn’t bill to the government. One charged the feds for his personal storage unit, used to store photo albums of his dog Buster, even after he retired. The Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service exists to offer voluntary mediation between unions & management. But many arbitrators do this; its real purpose was simply to pay employees, who constantly billed for travel to luxury destinations to “raise awareness” of its existence. Its preposterously entitled and audacious employees even leased a BMW with a government card. When investigators & auditors sounded the alarm about blatantly illegal conduct, FMCS fired THEM! Even the few work-related expenses were ridiculous. The 7 tiny agencies eliminated by DOGE+Trump last week are “independent” meaning they report directly to the president-but are so tiny that no president, or anyone, ever looks over their shoulders. Corruption is endemic as a result.
You can read Luke’s entire thread below: These are the government slush funds the left is fighting to protect. They’re out here firebombing Tesla dealerships—risking their own lives and freedom—not for justice, not for the people, but to save corrupt agencies that exist solely to bankroll lazy bureaucrats and their overpriced oil paintings. Just think about that for a second. How brainwashed do you have to be to commit arson for the rights of elitist paper-pushers to blow taxpayer cash on BMW leases and dog photo storage? The left hasn’t just lost its soul—it’s lost its damn mind, too. We encourage you to read the entire Daily Wire piece. You can do so by clicking here. Read more at: Revolver.news
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