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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kelly Rissman

DOGE workers are using four rooms at a federal office building for sleeping — with IKEA beds, lamps and dressers

DOGE staffers are building IKEA flatpacks so they can sleep in the office buildings of the very federal agencies that they are trying to dismantle, according to a new report.

The Elon Musk-led cost-cutting arm has swiftly terminated federal workers, slashed contracts, and taken steps to reduce the government’s real estate footprint, upending the federal government in a matter of weeks. But one area DOGE staffers aren’t reportedly cutting down on is sleep.

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