Holy moly, these people aren’t playing around. From DOGE finding billions of dollars in fraud and waste and decimating bloated (corrupt) agencies like USAID to the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announcing plans to shutter over 110 IRS offices, the Trump administration has been cutting waste like no administration we have ever seen before.
And they are far from done, it would seem: on Tuesday, the GSA outlined plans to get rid of a staggering 443 “non-core” federal properties and sell them off. The size of such a move would be absolutely yuge:
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.
In total, the structures represent almost 80 million rentable square feet (7.4 million square meters) of usable space — 12 times the size of the Pentagon. The GSA estimates that selling them could save more than $430 million in annual operating costs, a key focus for Trump and his efforts to reduce government spending.
Now that, my friends, is a lot of office space.
Trump is considering selling 443 federal properties across the US as part of his pledge to shrink the government. The government’s list of “non-core” assets totals almost 80 million square feet of commercial space.
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On their website, the GSA lists the properties under consideration; you can scroll through them here to see if there are any in your state. They wrote:
Non-core property list
We are identifying buildings and facilities that are not core to government operations, or non-core properties for disposal. Selling ensures that taxpayer dollars are no longer spent on vacant or underutilized federal spaces. Disposing of these assets helps eliminate costly maintenance and allows us to reinvest in high-quality work environments that support agency missions.
The list… includes properties designated for disposal. We will update it as assessments progress.
If you are in the buying mood, you might just be able to purchase some very iconic properties:
About a third of the buildings on the list are in the Washington, DC, metro area, but they make up a disproportionate share of the square footage — in part because major agencies have their headquarters there. Among the departments whose buildings are up for sale are Agriculture, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Labor, Justice and Veterans Affairs.
Other buildings that could one day no longer be on the federal asset list include the FBI agency headquarters and, funnily enough, the GSA’s own HQ.
Here’s one that’s even better, though, as our Nick Arama reported:
FOR SALE: San Francisco’s Pelosi Federal Building on the Chopping Block
Getting that building off our portfolio would certainly be satisfying karma, would it not?
Shedding this amount of real estate would be enormously complicated, and I wouldn’t expect things to move too quickly. It’s hard to put a value on some of these buildings; some of them are older and in need of repair, while others were built for very specific purposes and would be hard to transform into something more useful. Meanwhile, the office real estate market has never fully recovered from the COVID crisis and the work-from-home craze, which makes things that much more complex.
Nevertheless, I applaud the effort—at least they’re taking action and making attempts to trim the fat off this enormously bloated government. Keep at it, Team Trump.
UNBELIEVABLE. We’re forcing Americans to pay $2 BILLION a year on unused federal office space.
The GSA studied 24 federal agencies; not a single one uses more than 49% office space. 17 out of 24 agencies use less than 25% office space.
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