On the Way Out the Door, Biden Is Emptying the Coffers
2nd January 2025
Over the last 250 years of American political gamesmanship, both parties have played year-end games into the arms of a new incoming administration. In early 2000, the incoming George Walker Bush team discovered that every keyboard in the White House and other administrative offices was missing the “W” key.
The outgoing Clinton staff had removed all the “W” keys to annoy the new administration after an extremely contentious election.
The damage was small, estimated at $15,000.
But the bigger message here was that when the party that runs the White House changes, the outgoing administration will leave some proverbial “time bombs” for their successors.
While the damaged keyboards were more like a bad joke, what Biden is doing to Trump now is serious business. The outgoing administration has opened the spigots table max to get every penny out the door while they can under the existing budget.
It’s almost like they are looting the Treasury before they leave town.