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malaise

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Tue Apr 8, 2025, 10:45 PM Apr 2025

Holy shit [View all]

They are planning to steal the federal government properties

This is effin madness

https://www.inkl.com/news/live-on-location-doge-subcommittee-looks-at-federal-real-estate-roll-call

Marjorie Taylor Greene took her DOGE agenda on the road Tuesday, but the tour didn’t go far. The Delivering on Government Efficiency Oversight Subcommittee held a field hearing on federal real estate holdings from the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, the home of the U.S. Agency for Global Media located just three blocks west of the Capitol.

The office building sits mostly empty. Last month, President Donald Trump moved to gut the agency and Voice for America, and while a federal judge recently blocked the firing of around 1,200 workers, many remain out on administrative leave.

The federal government has a massive property portfolio, owning and leasing office space across the nation to house millions of employees. Operations that large come with inefficiencies, and for decades Democratic and Republican administrations alike have worked on incremental changes. Now Trump is taking a different approach: In February, the administration moved to begin terminating the roughly 7,500 leases managed by the General Services Administration nationwide and sell upward of another 500 properties.

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