DOGE Shuts Texas Office Responsible for Building Border Wall

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Newsweek

Published Feb 28, 2025 at 6:51 AM EST


The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has canceled the lease for the U.S. attorney's office in Corpus Christi, leaving prosecutors racing to find a new workplace.

The office handles cases from Border Patrol checkpoints near Falfurrias and Sarita, while its Civil Division oversees land condemnation proceedings for border wall construction. The sudden closure raises concerns about potential disruptions to legal operations tied to border security. Newsweek has contacted the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas.

Why It Matters

The newly formed DOGE, led by President Donald Trump's billionaire backer, Elon Musk, is committed to cutting federal spending and has dismantled several federal agencies.DOGE has become a flashpoint in the national conversation regarding the Trump's administration efforts to try to make government more efficient. However, it has faced backlash from critics who say it has overstepped presidential authority and disregarded legal constraints. The administration has been hit with a wave of lawsuits, including some filed by unions representing recently dismissed employees.

What to Know

It remains unclear at this stage when exactly DOGE staffers scrapped the lease. Prosecutors only learned of the decision on Wednesday. The Corpus Christi division operates out of One Shoreline Plaza, a twin-skyscraper office complex overlooking Corpus Christi Bay, just a few blocks south of the federal courthouse.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/doge-texas-office-shut-lease-border-wall-immigration-2037666

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[wishstar]

1. They'll probably just take out new lease with kickbacks from a Trumper landlord

When I worked for Social Sec Administration during GW Bush's term, we were forced to give up totally adequate office space in a Federally owned building in order to move into newly built office space outside the city that a well known Bush supporting real estate developer had built in order to obtain 10 year lease from Bush Administration. Bush's Admin also contracted with a computer company for millions of computers for SSA that weren't even functional and the debacle turned out to involve kickbacks and difficulty getting money back.

[Eugene]

2. grotesque but beautiful in its own way

[slightlv]

3. You have to wonder where they're going with this...

with no U.S. Attorney in the office there, there's no oversight and no legalities to worry about. This doesn't bode well, I fear.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. I think it was sloppy slash and burn

and they will have to relocate the office somewhere if not reinstate the lease. They cannot eliminate a U.S. Attorney slot (legally).

[slightlv]

5. BumRush... you and I agree most of the time on our opinions...

but this one I have to disagree with. The office in Corpus Christi does a lot, they're scrambling and, whether legal or not, musk will do what he wants with that U.S. attorney. musk is our unelected president, after all. trump is too busy stashing money in his pockets to do anything other than tell musk to tear it all down. And musk joyfully agrees with him.

They have defied court orders and they've gone against constitutional law. This is an administration that has no adherence to rule of law. In fact, I feel coming out of them that if it's against the law or the constitution, they certainly *will* break it. Now talk is once again of trump being elected for a third term? Yeah... prop him up, via Weekend at Bernies!

[BumRushDaShow]

6. But think about it

They are weaponizing DOJ so they need that office (and all the rest in the state) to prosecute all kinds of things to feed to the 5th Circuit and eventually to the SCOTUS. I.e., not just "immigration" but anti-DEI and they still have that idiotic abortion bounty law on the books. So they would never shut any of their TX offices down.

[Javaman]

10. the wall will be replaced with bullets. nt

[markodochartaigh]

7. Maybe they can work with Ted Cruz from...

Cancún.

[Figarosmom]

8. Now thats funny.

But it also reveals how they are taking people's land for the wall. These lawyers are condemning the properties and then taking them. I'm glad they lost their property where they work then.

[LeftInTX]

9. They'll probably just move some cases to Brownsville and Laredo.

But I really doubt they will shut down a federal district court.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. This is the building/complex

The suite is #500 so based on how the plaza numbers their offices, they are on the 5th floor. I expect if they face the bay, they have a nice view.

[Martin68]

13. Shooting themselves in the foot. This will be happening frequently amidst the chaos of random disruption.

[JohnnyRingo]

14. Hell no! They don't need a wall anymore...

....Who would want to come here with former EPA staffers picking grapes, four star generals working as doormen, and HUD workers roofing houses?
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