- Doge removed more than 100 buildings from the “End of the End” menu.
- The reduction reaches $ 150 million in the demand savings.
- Dog targeted federal buildings, and some legislators were retreating.
One of the many federal expenses on the Doug cutting block is rental contracts in government buildings. However, the adjustments to the DOGE dashboard indicate that it does not win every battle on that front.
As of Wednesday morning, Duji included 793 federal rental terms on its website, where she got total savings of about $ 500 million. But by later that morning, 136 properties were removed from that list, as Dog’s savings, which were demanded by about $ 150 million.
Although the Trump administration has once ordered federal workers to return to the office, the Ministry of Governmental efficiency, which Illon Musk defended, is working to cancel rental contracts in the buildings that He claimed musk It is “unused” or seated vacant.
It is not clear any lease contracts that have been removed from the list, or why the spokesperson for the Public Services Department, which runs federal real estate, rejected the commentary of the removal of rental construction from the Daij site.
GSA previously said it reflected more than 100 rental terms, The New York Times reported Earlier this week. When it was reached for comment by Business Insider, a GSA spokesman did not comment on specific numbers, but he said that the agency “reviews all options to improve the federal footprint and use construction”, “sending letters of customer agencies to inform them GSA by considering the termination of the lease”, and “managing the effective lease contracts by providing the rights to cancel the current contract.”
The spokesperson added that in cases where the current rental contracts are considered the most appropriate, GSA will control its approach by “canceling the completion notifications or in some cases, and not issuing them at all.”
Among the end of the lease, which is still listed in the Doug List starting on Thursday, there are 27 Food and Drug Administration buildings, including one in Newark, New Jersey with an annual lease contract for more than $ 630,000, Dog says without providing more details to more than two million dollars in savings.
The list also includes buildings for the Ministry of Education, the Federal Trade Committee, the National Park Service, and dozens of other federal agencies. But the exact condition of each “finishing the lease contract” is not clear to each element in the list – some buildings include a lot of details as is the case when sending the lease contract and when it will be terminated, while others are simply distinguished as “termination via Mass Mod”.
Regardless, some legislators have found success in returning to Dog’s attempt to close their mandate buildings.
For example, Republican Representative Tom Cole from Oklahoma said in statement Last week, after calling for many federal buildings in his term, Dog agreed not to end the lease contracts.
“After working closely with Doug and the administration, I am pleased to announce that the proper logic has prevailed, as the National weather center in Norman and the Social Security Administration Office in Loton will remain, and the Indian Health Services Office in Oklahoma City will remain working in Oklahoma.”
Democratic Senator Bin Ray Logan from New Mexico He also spoke against The GSA plan to stop the rental of the Ministry of Energy Building in New Mexico, responsible for managing an underground warehouse of nuclear waste, saying that the closure of the facility will endanger national and environmental security. Logan said in a statement he was informed New York Times.
This is not the first time that the Trump administration has stumbled on what federal real estate gets rid of.
In early March, GSA published a list that defines more than 440 “non-nuclear” federal real estate that can be sold-including the headquarters of the FBI and the Ministry of Justice-but within one day, the agency took the list, The New York Times mentioned. Now, and Acting website The list of characteristics “soon” says.
In total, Doge claims so far that its efforts to reduce costs are providing taxpayers with an estimated $ 115 billion, but within two months of his existence, he has already reduced her savings several times.
