Posted on 03/03/2016 7:49:00 AM PST by george76
The federal government spends more than $1.7 billion a year to maintain 770,000 empty buildings while other agencies are leasing or buying new space, and Rep. Jeff Denham is fed up.
This is something that hasn’t been handled in Republican or Democrat administrations because it’s too big of a bureaucracy,” Denham (R-Turlock) said in an interview in his office. “There’s no incentive for the agencies to sell.”
He said if politicians are going to talk about cutting government waste, selling empty buildings is a good start.
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We have very little communication between agencies,” Denham said. “We’ve seen agencies that will put out to bid huge pieces of property for the next big expansion, the next new thing that they need and only after it gets approved, then another agency goes 'Hey, wait a minute, we’ve got half of a building here.'"
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The federal government has tried for decades to get a handle on its hundreds of thousands of office buildings, storage warehouses, courthouses, hospitals, parking garages and other structures. In California, the federal government owned more than 271 million square feet of property in fiscal 2014, according to the General Services Administration. How much of that property is not being used is not clear.
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Get rid of excess employees and not needed departments and look at how many trillion we’d save.
Central Valley congressman wants taxpayers to know what empty federal buildings are costingNot near as much as occupied federal buildings.
Our government plans to fill them with islam refuge where they can pinch off litters of new Americans and spread the disease of islam.
That is the plan of some to make America great.
Another area where Trump the real estate magnate will shine.
Maybe a real estate developer might have some ideas on this problem. A sort of market place for agencies to shop first.
Somehow I’m sure Diane Feinstein’s has a hand in this.
Hey Rep. Denham, Trump will take care of this the first month he is in the Oval Office. AND THAT IS WHY DC IS IN A PANIC. How many of these hundreds of thousands of buildings are associated with the DC mob. They know they will be losing easy money.
My husband and I were talking about that yesterday. Why can’t the Congrssional office buildings in D.C. be sold to a college or university for dorms, offices, etc? Then we can use the Capitol Building for historical tours. All Congree critters can go home to their sates/districts and operate from there. With modern tech, there is no need for D.C. to be maintained. It would be more difficult for lobbiests to lobby, also.
That’s a great idea, actually.
The odds of it happening are about the same as Salma Hayek dumping her billionaire husband and calling me for a date.
Yep, a real estate developer by the name of Trump.
Trump will solve this the first day.
Therein is the problem. If the agency sells the property they don't get to keep the money for current operations, its just go back into the general fund.
I am very aware this this situation. Privatation is required including a credit for taxes unlike the government.
Wait a minute now, Nancy Pelosi said that there is no more fat in the budget, that we are down to the bone. /s off
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