Elon Musk spent all that time at Mar-a-Lago coming up with a plan. Trump signed off to it.
Posted on 02/04/2025 7:05:16 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
One of the next moves in President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s sweeping effort to fire government employees and curtail operations is using the agency that manages thousands of federal employee worksites around the country to cut down on office space.
Last week, regional managers for the General Services Administration, or GSA, received a message from the agency’s Washington headquarters to begin terminating leases on all of the roughly 7,500 federal offices nationwide, according to an email shared with The Associated Press by a GSA employee.
The order seems to contradict Trump’s own return-to-office mandate for federal employees, adding confusion to what was already a scramble by the GSA to find workspace, internet connections and office building security credentials for employees who had been working remotely for years.
But it may reflect the Trump administration’s belief that it won’t need as many offices due to its efforts to fire employees or encourage them to resign.
Here’s what to know about the GSA and how Trump’s Republican administration is using it in its pursuit of changes with other federal agencies:
An independent agency, the GSA in essence acts like the federal government’s real estate broker, managing federal property for various agencies. President Harry S. Truman established the GSA in 1949, streamlining administrative duties of procuring workplaces for federal employees that had to that point been handled by a variety of entities.
Initially, in the wake of World War II, the GSA was tasked with disposing of war surplus goods and stockpiling strategic supplies for use in wartime. These days, it handles the acquisition of workplaces for more than 1 million federal civilian workers, oversees preservation of hundreds of historic buildings and manages government purchases from commercial vendors.
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The winning just keeps right on going non stop.
Well, that’s one way to go!
This thing is moving faster than a brush fire in Santa Anas.
I have said this before.
If Elon Musk manages to cut two trillion of fat from the US budget, I’ll buy one of his vehicles.
I don’t think the Democrats really understand how popular reducing the waste in the government is.
Elon Musk spent all that time at Mar-a-Lago coming up with a plan. Trump signed off to it.
It’s as if they had all the goods on them — they knew where to look.
Maybe they’ve been gaming this out for a long time.
Isn’t this Musks twitter playbook?
Especially with the Left boycotting his vehicles now.
I wish I had read this post before I posted #7.
I spent 20 years dealing with GSA. The can make the simplest project cost 4X as much as it should.
Who else was there?
Especially with the Left boycotting his vehicles now.”
Another reason to buy one
Does it come with a fire extinguisher?
Trump’s been President for two weeks...
I can't imagine that they'll talk to that many people. They were trying to prevent leaks.
Unlike Trump's first term, we were constantly hearing leaks from Trump's staffers.
That’s exactly what they did. After ‘losing’ in 2020, Trump set up a team (I believe run by his Chief of Staff - don’t recall her name). They researched every federal law and agency, determined how to deconstruct the Government - there’s a video on YouTube
It sounds like they’re going to try to renegotiate the leases. With the firings, early retirements and general downsizing, they’ll able get by with fewer buildings. With the glut in office building space they should have the leverage to save a significant amount of money.
They can rotate shifts. 3 shifts and use 1/3 the office space.
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