What If Federal Employees Never Returned for Work and No One Missed Them?

The rest of America in private sector jobs is back to work, but not the 1.9 million federal employees, who often make $100,000 a year in salaries and benefits. All of this is an outrageous abuse of taxpayer money, but there is a silver lining here.

AP/Jacquelyn Martin
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management in 2016 at Washington. AP/Jacquelyn Martin

This is one of the greatest federal government scandals of all time. Many hundreds of thousands of federal employees have been getting a full-time paycheck from Uncle Sam (meaning from all of us) without showing up for work for three years now. They don’t call it Club Fed for nothing.

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