Trump and Musk demand termination of federal office leases through General Services Administration

[Zorro]

Source: AP News via Yahoo Finance

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.

Read more: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-musk-demand-termination-federal-190050814.html

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Trump is at war with OUR government.

[Ocelot II]

1. They want everybody who was working at home to come back to their offices

but they're getting rid of the offices. Is not having office space just an excuse to fire more employees?

WTF?

[Harker]

10. An extremely vicious circle. n/t

[hadEnuf]

2. Where are the brakes to be used on these two fascists?

Are we just totally at their mercy?

[Joinfortmill]

3. Wow. Trump and Musk? What the Fuck?

[LittleGirl]

4. So which is it?

Do they want everybody back in the office or are they ending leases for these offices?

I can't keep up with this clown show circus.

[JoseBalow]

5. Waiting to hear about drumpsk's new office buildings for lease

[NotHardly]

6. MMW: Waiting for suits to go through courts will get us all killed.

[jgmiller]

7. Everyone needs to do a little reading on Musk's takeover of Twitter

He is following what he did at Twitter perfectly. If you want to know his next move just look at what he did there. First he demanded everyone come back, then he told everyone if they didn't come back they would be fired. Next he made the ones that stayed defend their performance/jobs. The ones that took his buyout offer had to actually sue him to get the money BTW.

After he got rid of the people he didn't think he needed he started letting stuff break to see if anyone noticed. If they didn't then he just left it broken/off. At some point in all of this mess he told his landlords he was cancelling all of the leases and stopped paying them. He also stopped paying other contracts he didn't feel were needed.

He might think out of the box with rockets and cars (kind of) but when it comes to trying to save money and breaking an organization he has one playbook.

[sdfernando]

8. No, leon doesn't think out of the box

"He might think out of the box with rockets and cars (kind of)" leon doesn't do the thinking for these, other people do it for him and he takes the credit....just like someone else we know.

[obamanut2012]

9. He didn't create anything with Tesla and SpaceX

NOt even at PayPal. Other people did. He isn't an engineer or computer guy. He also only has a BA -- rocket scientists hold higher degrees.

[valleyrogue]

11. Not relevant to the federal civil service.

They have due process rights like most if not all public employees.

Just because he fired people at Twitter doesn't mean he can do it with federal employees. Besides, he has no authority to do it.

Neither does Trump.

[Shipwack]

12. One possible scenario:

Step 1) Force workers to come back to the office.

Step 2) Get rid of current office spaces

Step 3) Lease/buy new office space at inflated prices from Trump family and cronies.

[James48]

13. He is destroying the United States of America.

We will be just like Hugary’s Orban.

[lark]

14. This is so fucking bizarre!! First they say everyone has to return then they work to terminate all the leases?

Where are these ee supposed to return when the places are being closed??? This is just fuckery to confuse us for the war that is coming.

[ConstanceCee]

15. Is There?

Does Musk have a tip line for suggestions on ways to save money? I would suggest starting with elimination of the penny.