That our government employees are comfortable at their offices is more important to me than illegal aliens (who contribute nothing to our government) are living in comfortable conditions wholly subsidized by taxpayers for no other reason than they violated our sovereign law. I don't give a shit how little was spent on their facilities. The barest minimum to reach code is required, but it's still too much for me. Big picture: they don't deserve a dime of aid.
On the other hand I have a severe distaste for government waste, and $120m spent on furniture for one department is clearly too much.
Nevertheless, much of this is a startup cost since they had to build a new HQ for a relatively new department that only came into existence after 2001, and has never had its own headquarters. So if TDB wants to impress upon me how wasteful their spending is it would require a bill for the building cost of a similarly-sized department, and the sum of their furniture costs for their HQ (adjusted for inflation), or at least an estimate of what it would cost to furnish that HQ if built today being thrifty.
In essence, this entire article exists to drum up outrage over the fact a new headquarters for the DHS is being built by taking it out of context through pandering to bleeding hearts over the border crisis. Building a government building is a "scandal"? Fuck the people who authored this.
