DOGE’s plans to offload government buildings supported by former GSA official

Exclusive: The head of the former Public Services Department (GSA) Emily Murphy, all of which served President Donald TrumpFox News Digitter told Fox News Digital to lead to the rights of its wallets by selling or renting unused buildings – to provide funds to help the government more efficiently.

Murphy told Fox News Digital about Elon Musk Ministry of Governmental efficiency (Doug) Work with GSA to determine the “vacant or unexploited federal spaces” as part of the Trump administration plan to reduce waste spending.

“Currently, GSA is losing money,” Murphy said. “The federal buildings they own exceeding $ 370 billion of postponed maintenance. This is a responsibility that grows and grows only because the buildings are not preserved. So getting rid of this owned space is not preserved and not kept, it is not useful to be done well. It is not good for anyone.”

Murphy said that these empty buildings are often in the perfect city center, “areas of heavy use”, which can be a real advantage of building society and returning funds to the Treasury.

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Emily Murphy, former GSA director, told Fox News Digital to adopt Elon Musk Doge’s plans to empty “vacant or unexploited federal spaces” as part of the Trump administration plan to reduce waste spending. (Fox News Digital/Getty)

“GSA has the rights of its rental portfolio. Otherwise, it will pay the rent on the buildings that it does not occupy, and it does not have the necessary funding to do so,” Murphy said.

GSA’s cost reduction efforts have already led to 794 rental terms with a total of more than $ 500 million of rental obligations, as a source familiar with GSA procedures told Fox News Digital.

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Murphy said that the end of lease contracts and the sale of unused office spaces would benefit the government. First, it can occupy money to finance government agencies in the short term. Second, it will reduce long -term financial obligations.

“No tax motivation should want to pay the government in exchange for the area that it does not use,” Murphy said. “It is billions of dollars per year [that] Exit in rent and real estate payments from the federal government. This is a large amount of money, which is a real opportunity for GSA to do a great job for the American people and reduce long -term financial obligations for the government, and frankly, money is also released for agencies in the short term as well. “

Elon Musk speaks at the Conservative Political Labor Conference (CPAC), February 20, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Murphy Fox told that GSA is “to reduce waste” and during its term, they managed to return about $ 21.6 billion in savings. I embraced Dog’s efforts to reduce waste spending Increasing government efficiency, Fox News Digital that these issues must have support from the two parties.

“Giving priority to efficiency and reducing waste in our government must be a issue of both parties. Government contract, or government real estate does not have a Republican team or a democratic side of the currency,” Murphy said. “What Dog is doing at the present time is to move forward and try to make sure that taxpayers can have confidence that every dollar spends is really in their interest.

Murphy explained that GSA was created to manage the real estate portfolio and purchases of the federal government and welcomes the renewed focus on efficiency.

GSA produced the largest number of savings through federal agencies, according to the official DOGE website. (AP/Getty)

“GSA is basically the government administration’s arm. It deals with real estate property, purchases, and many of the government’s joint services, and vehicles in the government fleet. It runs a lot of government office functions. It was created about 75 years ago by facing this challenge specifically, so that there was no confrontation to do the same nail the nail again.”

Stephen Ikian was sworn in as an Acting official and deputy director of GSA on the opening day.

“With the Trump Vances administration, I will return GSA to its primary purpose of making government work more intelligent and faster,” said Ikian. “Going forward, GSA will focus on leading an effective government and enabling sister agencies to provide better taxpayers at lower costs.”

GSA produced the largest number of savings through federal agencies, according to the official DOGE website. The web page, entitled “Non -Essential Property List (soon)” on GSA is the ongoing efforts of the agency to provide government buildings.

Public Services Building in Washington, DC (Getty)

“We define the buildings and facilities that are not fundamental for government operations, or non -basic real estate, to get rid of them. Selling guarantees that taxpayers dollars are no longer spent on vacant or not exploited from federal areas.

The Associated Press mentioned Dozens of federal conferences and rental contracts will be completed by June 20, with hundreds of expected in the coming months. As I mentioned last week GSA has published a list of more than 440 federal properties that the government plans to get rid of. Then the list was reviewed to include only 320 buildings before updating the web page in the end to its current “Seint Seint”.

She inherited musk About unused desktop buildings on his personal account X and Doug’s official account.

” * The road * is still a lot of rental contracts on unused buildings,” Mousse was published on February 25.

“It was agreed! Today, cancellation operations in vacant/unexploited buildings rose from approximately 257 to 440, with increased annual rental savings from $ 100 million to approximately $ 171 million. There are still a lot of office space available for the current working force,” Dog answered the MUSK the next day.

“Today, the federal government exceeded $ 100 million of annual rent savings by canceling more than 250 vacant/unexplained rental contracts that total 3 meters+ square meters. With about 7,250 current rents, there are a lot of office space available for the current operating force,” Dog announced in a publication on February 25.

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“Crazy that the government was renting and paying for maintenance services for hundreds of empty buildings!” Musk answered.