Important Takeaways:

• The Trump administration has published a list of more than 440 federal properties to be closed or sold after deeming them ‘not core to government operations.’
• Hours later, however, the administration issued a revised list with only 320 entries – none in Washington, D.C.
• The initial list had included some of the country’s most recognizable buildings, along with courthouses, offices and even parking garage and spanned nearly every state.
• The potential sell-off appears to be part of Trump’s effort to slash the size of the federal government, led by tech billionaire Elon Musk. The downsizing drive has already led to 100,000 workers taking buyouts or being fired.
• In Washington, D.C., the list includes the Old Post Office, which formerly housed the Trump International Hotel and is newly renovated.
• Others, such as the FBI’s crumbling J. Edgar Hoover Building, are widely seen as outdated. The GSA said in 2023 it would build a new FBI headquarters in Maryland.
• The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building and the American Red Cross HQ are also on the list.
• The list includes the headquarters for several major government agencies, including the Veterans Administration, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Energy, the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Federal Aviation Administration.
• GSA’s own headquarters were also on the list.
• Elsewhere in the country, the administration targeted the enormous Major General Emmett J. Bean Federal Center in Indiana, the Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center, the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco and the U.S. mission’s United Nation headquarters in New York.
• The list includes skyscrapers in Chicago, Atlanta and Cleveland, as well as several Internal Revenue Service hubs that process tax returns.
• The IRS said in an internal memo last week that it would sell those buildings starting in June, after the April tax filing season is complete.
• It was not clear how many of the buildings on GSA’s list will eventually be put up for sale, or what sort of price they might bring.
• ‘We are identifying buildings and facilities that are not core to government operations, or non-core properties for disposal,’ the GSA said of the list of 443 properties.
• Selling the properties ‘ensures that taxpayer dollars are no longer spent on vacant or underutilized federal space,’ it said, and ‘helps eliminate costly maintenance and allows us to reinvest in high-quality work environments that support agency missions.’
• Eliminating federal office space has been a top priority of the new administration.
• Last month, GSA regional managers received a message from the agency’s Washington headquarters ordering them to begin terminating leases on all of the roughly 7,500 federal offices nationwide.
• In a follow-up meeting, GSA regional managers were told that their goal is to terminate as many as 300 leases per day

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