The DOGE-ed Agency Whose Employees Lived ‘Like Kings’

The DOGE-ed Agency Whose Employees Lived ‘Like Kings’


A new report claims that an agency that Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency just shuttered was on a satirical level of corruption, living like wealthy aristocrats off taxpayer funds.


Trump ordered seven federal agencies either to be downsized or to be eliminated altogether last week, and The Daily Wire accuses one, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS), of being particularly egregious in its unconstitutional and unconscionable waste. Supposedly, FMCS is an “independent agency” that mediates between businesses and unions, with a workforce of 230, of which 60 supposedly worked in a massive D.C. office building (when they showed up to work at all).

FMCS official George Cohen ordered champagne, $200 coasters, and his wife’s oil paintings using agency money. Why should Hunter Biden be the only “artist” surviving off corrupt handouts? The paintings were of agency employees “like they were reigning kings or something,” one employee put it. And $2,402 was spent just on retouching the painting of one who was the acting agency head for a brief period only. As small as the agency is and as vague as its relationship to the president and the executive are, the agency has long operated as if it had no oversight, Luke Rosiak said on The Daily Wire.

[FMCS] occupied a nine-story office tower on D.C.’s K Street for only 60 employees, many of whom actually worked from home, prior to the pandemic. Its managers had luxury suites with full bathrooms; one manager would often be “in the shower” when she was needed, while another used her bathroom as a cigarette lounge. FMCS recorded its director [Scot Beckenbaugh] as being on a years-long business trip to D.C. so he could have all of his meals and living expenses covered by taxpayers, simply for showing up to the office.

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