Musk has mass terminated hundreds of government leases, simultaneously demanding federal workers go back to the office.

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Just in: Musk’s team has mass terminated hundreds of government leases, while simultaneously demanding federal workers go back to the office five days a week

“Where are we supposed to tell them to go?,” one federal supervisor tells me


Elon Musk’s DOGE Ditches 100 Government Leases So Far

Less than one month into President Donald Trump’s second term, DOGE terminated, or allowed to expire, 99 of the federal government’s leases totaling some 2.3 million square feet of space across the U.S., according to DOGE’s government website. The vast majority of leases cut were less than 10,000 square feet, but most of the space on the chopping block and the largest concentration of terminated leases is located within the DMV.

The largest terminated lease so far was 845,389 square feet leased by the Department of Labor in Washington, D.C. A property of that exact rentable square footage is at 2 Massachusetts Avenue NE, according to the General Services Administration’s real estate database, a site dubbed Postal Square. Built in 1914, the property served as the D.C.’s main post office for over 70 years — it now houses the National Postal Museum, Bureau of Labor Statistics (hence the Department of Labor designation on DOGE’s list) and U.S. Senate offices. It’s unclear if the terminated lease affects only the Bureau of Labor Statistics headquarters, or the museum and Senate offices as well.

The second-largest cut lease, by far, was 259,130 square feet leased by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the District, per the website. A government lease of that size was at 400 Seventh Street SW, in a property known as Constitution Center.

Other notable leases cut in the DMV include two from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS): 59,681 square feet for the agency’s Undersecretary of Management, at the CIM Group-owned 800 North Capitol Street NW, which expired this month; and 49,662 square feet at the Dreyfuss Holdings-owned 1616 Fort Myer Drive in Arlington, Va., which expired in January. The cut DHS leases are likely reflective of its long-gestating move to the St. Elizabeths West Campus in Southeast Washington, D.C.

A separate entry on the list in Arlington denotes a 55,043-square-foot lease from “multiple” undefined agencies. The lease, which cost $2.6 million per year, had been in holdover and was terminated Jan. 31. Assuming a five-year continuance, the termination amounts to nearly $13 million in savings, per DOGE.

https://commercialobserver.com/2025/02/elon-musk-doge-government-leases-office/

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1. Won't the unitary termination of leases mean

Court actions for breach of contract?

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2. Because you're probably as confused as I was...

...in this story "DMV" means "Delaware - Maryland - Virginia" rather than "Department of Motor Vehicles."

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3. lol

...fricking DMV...those basta..!

Oh...nevernind!