Posted on 03/06/2025 9:16:28 PM PST by Morgana
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has cancelled the lease for the Obama Presidential Library in Chicago, according to reports.
DOGE included the library, which is currently in Chicago’s Hoffman Estates, in its extensive list of federal lease terminations. However, the library was already scheduled to closed and move to a new location, so the termination of the lease may not have any meaningful or major impacts.
According to Fox News:
The DOGE website did not provide a timetable for the closures, although a NARA spokesperson told Fox News Digital the Hoffman Estates library was scheduled to close in late Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 and move to College Park in Maryland. The government’s FY 2025 runs through Sept. 30, 2025.
There are about 25 million unclassified paper documents at the Hoffman Estate building, according to NARA’s estimate, and they are currently being digitized and will be available in digital format at the Obama Presidential Center when it opens. Under the 1978 Presidential Records Act, NARA gets custody of all presidential records and artifacts when a president leaves office.
The news comes as DOGE continues to boast of major taxpayer wins, some of which President Donald Trump listed off during Tuesday evening’s address.
“Just listen to some of the appalling waste we have already identified,” Trump said during the speech, listing off several examples of how the federal government has wasted U.S. taxpayer dollars.
“…$22 billion from HHS to provide free housing and cars for illegal aliens. $45 million for Diversity Equity and Inclusion scholarships in Burma. $40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants,” Trump said. “Nobody knows what that is,” triggering laughs in the chamber.
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I had missed this part of what Trump said yesterday about the department heads, not DOGE, making specific cuts:
“Elon and the group are going to be watching them, and if they can cut, it’s better. And if they don’t cut, then Elon will do the cutting.”
Should be in a refrigerator box.
While an inconsequential move for DOGE, it does allow us normals to indulge in some schadenfreude while observing the leftist heads explode at this action.
Judge will order that the lease remain, so that after the Obamao Library moves, the building will just sit there as an ongoing federal expense.
1.6 million per year on a 2.4 million building? Why?
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