Bloomberg reports that Trump is seeking to sell 443 federal buildings, including the Dick Cheney Federal Building in Wyoming and the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco
JUST IN: The Trump administration is reportedly moving forward with plans to sell off 443 federal buildings, including properties named after former Vice President Dick Cheney and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Trump’s administration is set to auction off 443 federal properties, including the Justice Department and FBI headquarters.
This sweeping effort to shrink the government stretches across 47 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico, aligning with Trump’s goal of cutting the federal… pic.twitter.com/s2ZhRLWJfn
The US government is considering selling a sprawling portfolio of properties across 47 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, part of President Donald Trump’s campaign to shrink the federal workforce — and the buildings it occupies.
An inventory of 443 “non-core” assets posted by the General Services Administration Tuesday included many of the prime commercial buildings that house local and regional offices for federal agencies and provide services for taxpayers, Social Security recipients, farmers and workers.
It’s interesting to note that after the initial list of 443 federal properties on the chopping block was published, the list was revised to 320.
The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it could sell hundreds of federal properties around the country, including offices for the Social Security Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
Officials at the General Services Administration, an agency that manages the federal government’s real estate portfolio, originally said they had identified more than 440 properties that they could “dispose of” in an effort to ensure that “taxpayers no longer pay for empty and underutilized federal office space.”
By Tuesday evening, however, the list of buildings deemed “not core to government operations” had been trimmed to 320 properties, removing a number of high-profile buildings, many of them in Washington, D.C.
Original list
On Tuesday, the Trump administration identified 443 federally owned properties that it deemed “not core to government operations.”
Revised list
By late Tuesday, a condensed list of 320 properties had removed all those in Washington, D.C.
Still, the effort amounted to an aggressive attempt by the Trump administration to offload a vast amount of federal property, and it immediately raised questions about how the move could affect government services across the country and federal workers who have been ordered to return to the office. It also advanced a major priority for Elon Musk’s government overhaul operation, known as the Department of Government Efficiency, which has fixated on eliminating “underutilized” federal office space.
The original list had included the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice building and the J. Edgar Hoover Building, the F.B.I. headquarters.
In addition, Elon Musk’s DOGE has canceled the lease at the temporary location in Hoffman Estates, Illinois of the proposed Obama Presidential Library!
JUST IN: Elon Musk and DOGE have TERMINATED the lease on the Obama Presidential Library site in Chicago, per Fox
The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has terminated the lease at the Obama Presidential Library site, although it is unlikely to impact operations there since it is due to shutter later this year and move to a new location.
The library is located at the Hoffman Estates in the northwest of Chicago and is separate to the sprawling 19.3-acre Obama Presidential Center near Jackson Park in the southside of Chicago which is under construction and is expected to be completed next year.
The site at the Hoffman Estates is run by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), as are all presidential libraries, while the Obama Presidential Center is a private venture being overseen by the Obama Foundation.
DOGE this week updated its list of nearly 750 federal lease terminations, totaling around 9.6 million square feet in size, which included the Hoffman Estates site. The agency, which has been tasked by President Donald Trump to cut wasteful federal spending, said the terminations will save the taxpayer $468 million in lease savings.
It’s unclear exactly which federal buildings will end up getting the axe.
But the message here is clear: it’s downsizing time for the bureaucratic establishment!
BREAKING:
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