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Wednesday, March 05, 2025

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a task force established by President Donald Trump with the goal of slashing unnecessary government spending, has terminated leases of more than 700 offices across the country so far.

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White House, via GSA, announces plans to sell off most of the central buildings which constitute the HQs of the American republic, including FBI HQs, HQs of DOJ, HHS, Dept of Labor and many others. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/looti ...

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-- Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) March 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM

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There is no precise number of fired federal employees that has been made public, but an analysis by USA Today showed that thousands of federal workers have been terminated, in addition to the 75,000 who accepted buyouts from the Trump administration.

As of Wednesday, DOGE has terminated leases of at least 748 offices across the country, according to data released by the task force on its "wall of receipts." It touted $468 million in lease savings, but critics are sounding the alarm about the impact cutting these facilities will have on Americans.

No state is untouched by the lease terminations. California, where 63 offices are slated to close down, tops the list, while Maine has the least amount of planned closures, with only two lease terminations so far.

#1 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-05 03:55 PM | Reply

How much in early termination fees are we on the hook for?

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-05 04:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Putin couldn't have hoped for a better attack on America.

#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-05 04:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Putin couldn't have hoped for a better attack on America.
#3 | Posted by ClownShacK

Correct. Putin invested very wisely in Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024.

#4 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-05 04:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

We might make some mistakes, Musk said:

DOGE D'oh: Nuclear Waste Facility Edition

As DOGE continues it's federal government wilding spree, purportedly searching for examples of waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government, we seem to have had another case of keyword search gone awry.

One of the leases DOGE decided to cancel is the lease for Skeen-Whitlock Building in Carlsbad, New Mexico, a 90,000 square foot facility which manages the nation's only storage area for DOD-created nuclear waste and the only operating deep geologic nuclear waste storage facility in the world.

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#5 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-05 06:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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