Ahead of the new Elon Musk-Vivek Ramaswamy initiative to cut federal waste through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the US General Services Administration (GSA) announced eight federal properties will be jettisoned from its portfolio.
The GSA plan said the reduction will involve 1.5 million square feet and more than $475 million in estimated cost avoidance over 10 years. The properties could either be transferred, exchanged, or sold to a federal, state, or local entity or the public.
“GSA is committed to rightsizing and optimizing the federal buildings portfolio in ways that benefit local communities while saving taxpayer dollars,” said GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan. “The actions we’re announcing today demonstrate our commitment to accelerating the disposition of federal buildings that don’t use taxpayer dollars effectively – and the opportunity to do even more with full access to the Federal Buildings Fund.”
The eight properties that will begin the disposition process are:
- Montpelier Federal Building – Montpelier, Vermont
- Brickell Plaza Building – Miami
- Charles A. Halleck Federal Building – Lafayette, Indiana
- Bismark Federal Building – Bismarck, North Dakota
- James V. Hansen Federal Building – Ogden, Utah
- Gus J. Solomon U.S. Courthouse – Portland, Oregon
- Richard B. Anderson Federal Building – Port Angeles, Washington
- Federal Office Building, 301 7th Street SW – Washington, DC
Last month, the DOGE channel on X signaled its plans to target underutilized federal properties by sharing a headline from the Washington Times that announced: “Nearly 90% of feds’ office in D.C. going to waste, government report finds.” The posting also included a message that stated: “Federal government agencies are using, on average, just 12% of the space in their DC headquarters. The Department of Agriculture, with space for more than 7,400 people, averaged 456 workers each day (6% occupancy). Why are American taxpayer dollars being spent to maintain empty buildings?”
Photo: Montpelier Federal Building, courtesy of GSA
GSA wants to get into the game before Trump takes over – too little, too late!
Why did it take the government this long to save us half billion dollars? And then times that for all the other years!
Thank god for DOGE!
This is a real estate site. Obviously the government has 5 or 10 yr leases that they cannot get out of. As they come up for renewal, they won’t renew, if not needed.
Ahhh, Obviously the government owns all of these properties ( Check the property records, This is a real estate site. ) So there is no reason to have kept them except for government spending and NO OVERSITE!
Exactly. What took so long? They’ve been found out uh oh.
About time we cut out all the wasteful spending!!
Ironic, we have an incoming administration vowing to cut excessive government 🙄.
Suddenly the public is notified about underutilized Federal building space 😳
You need to understand the swamp. This is the GSA forcing the incoming administration to maintain Federal assets in DC where utilization is 12%. There is no relocation of headcount if there is no where to relocate them to.
This is just the tip of the ice burg… Keep up the good work cutting the waste.
The selected the best to do the job — Elon Musk and Vivek – not politicians. That’s why the job is getting done.
Give the job to those who knows what they are doing – Elon and Vivek. Both are not politicians.
About time! Hopefully this is just the beginning to addressing the wasteful government spending!
Now that real experts have entered the stage, I look forward to more sale-offs or non-renewed leases over the several coming years. This is another chapter of government waste curtailed!
YAY…..thank you to our Beloved President Donald J Trump!!!! Promises made….promises kept! I hear the gurgle of the draining swamp…..soon all those parasites will be free to get a real job….smells like Nesara!