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Zorro

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Tue Feb 4, 2025, 03:15 PM Feb 2025

Trump and Musk demand termination of federal office leases through General Services Administration [View all]

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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