New York – The Trump administration on Tuesday published a list of more than 440 federal properties It had been identified to close or sell, including the FBI headquarters and the main construction department of the Department of Justice, after considering them “it is not essential for government operations.”
However, hours later, the Administration issued a reviewed list with only 320 tickets, none in Washington, DC and for Wednesday morning, the list had gone completely. “List of non -basic properties (soon)” reads the page.
He General Services AdministrationThat he published the lists, did not immediately answer the questions about the changes or why the properties that had been listed had been eliminated.
The initial list had included some of the most recognizable buildings in the country, along with the courts, offices and even parking and covered almost all states. In Washington, DC, included the J. Edgar Hoover building, which serves as the headquarters of the FBI, the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Department building, the old building of the Post Office, where President Donald Trump once directed a hotel and the headquarters of the American Red Cross. The headquarters of numerous agencies were also listed, including the Department of Labor and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
In another part of the country, the Administration went to the huge Federal General Center of General J. Bean in Indiana, the Federal Center Sam Nunn Atlanta, the speaker Nancy Federal Building in San Francisco and the United States mission to the United Nations in New York. Approximately 80% of the 2.4 million federal workers in the country are based outside the metropolitan Washington, DC
“We are identifying buildings and facilities that are not central to government operations, or non -basic properties for elimination,” GSA saying of the initial list of 443 properties. The sale of the properties “ensures that the dollars of taxpayers are no longer spent in the federal space vacant or underutilized,” he said, and “helps eliminate expensive maintenance and allows us to reinvest on high quality work environments that support the agency’s missions.”
Trump and billionaire ELON ALMIZCLE They have participated in an unprecedented effort to reduce the size of the federal workforce and reduce government spending. Selling the designated buildings could save hundreds of millions of dollars to the Federal Government, they claim, while also drastically remodeling how the main cabinet agencies funded by Congress operate. The Trump administration has also demanded that federal workers inform the office every day.
Several of the buildings on the initial agencies of the cutting house that Trump has criticized and attacked for a long time, in particular the Department of Justice and the FBI. The FBI and HUD headquarters are also main examples of the brutalist architectural style that Trump has tried for years to eliminate, preferring Traditional neoclassical architecture instead.
Eliminating the federal office space has been a priority of the new administration. Last month, GSA Regional Managers He received a message from the agency headquarters in Washington ordering them to begin to finish the leases in all 7,500 federal offices throughout the country.
In a follow -up meeting, GSA’s regional managers were told that their goal is to finish up to 300 leases per day, according to the employee, who spoke under the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
The Musk government efficiency department has listed dozens of office leases canceled on the official website of Dege, asking questions throughout the country about what will happen with the services provided in those offices.
Among the properties of the list published on Tuesday were a large federal building and a court in Los Angeles; a federal building in Oklahoma City that replaced one destroyed in a bombing of 1995; a computer center of the IRS in West Virginia and the IRS service centers in Ogden, Utah; Memphis, Tennessee; Atlanta; Austin, Texas; Andover, Massachusetts; and Holtsville, New York.
The administration also said that he was trying to download federal buildings with the names of the civil rights icons Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta and Rosa Parks in Detroit, and the Montgomery bus station, Alabama, which was fundamental in the civil rights movement and now serves as the Museum of the Freedom Steps.
In a statementThe GSA Public Building Service said that most of the properties it had classified as unnecessary were office spaces.
“The decades of financing deficiencies have turned out that many of these buildings become functionally obsolete and inappropriate for use of our federal workforce.” They wrote.
They said that GSA would consider the futures of the buildings “in an orderly manner to ensure that taxpayers no longer pay the vacuum and underutilized federal office space, or significant maintenance costs associated with the property of the long -term building, which could save more than $ 430 million in annual operational costs.”
The original 443 buildings, which are currently owned and maintained by GSA, covered almost 80 million profitable square feet, the agency said.
