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A Democrat connected the House Oversight Committee accused the Trump medication of offloading federal existent estate successful a haphazard "fire sale" arsenic Republicans purpose to chopped wasteful authorities spending by selling unused oregon underutilized authorities buildings.
Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., the ranking Democrat connected the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) subcommittee, took contented with the Trump administration’s attack during a proceeding connected Tuesday connected reducing the national existent property portfolio.
"The Trump medication is presently taking a occurrence merchantability attack of looting the national authorities and stripping it for parts to wage for taxation cuts that we cognize volition travel up successful their reconciliation deal," the lawmaker said.
DOGE is moving with the national government’s General Services Administration (GSA) to "rightsize" its portfolio and chopped wasteful spending. GSA has produced the astir savings crossed national agencies, according to the authoritative DOGE website.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., is the ranking Democrat connected the DOGE subcommittee. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images, FIle)
The GSA’s cost-cutting efforts person already resulted successful astir 700 lease terminations, eliminating 7.9 cardinal quadrate feet of national bureau abstraction and redeeming taxpayers astir $400 million, according to subcommittee seat Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.
John Hart, CEO of Open the Books, testified that $1 cardinal could beryllium saved connected furnishings unsocial by not renewing leases connected authorities buildings that are acceptable to expire successful 2027.
David Marroni, manager of carnal infrastructure astatine the U.S. Government Accountability Office, testified that nary authorities bureau "had a large way grounds successful presumption of the utilization" of their carnal headquarters’ footprints.
Marroni said determination could beryllium important savings successful reducing authorities workspaces.
"It's astir $8 cardinal a twelvemonth connected owned and leased bureau space, truthful immoderate simplification is going to make a batch of money," helium said.
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Democrats astatine the proceeding lobbed disapproval astatine President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk, who is starring the DOGE effort, with Stansbury accusing DOGE of being "a front" to enactment billionaires "who are trying to privatize nationalist services."
"And conscionable this week, we person seen, arsenic Elon Musk is connected his exit retired of the national government, helium has secured billions of dollars successful caller contracts crossed the national government. Conflict of interest? Yes, absolutely," Stansbury said.
The congresswoman claimed that Musk has secured contracts and promises for contracts astatine the Department of Defense and NASA, and is asking to instal SpaceX’s Starlink Wi-Fi astatine national agencies. Starlink, which is simply a subsidiary of Musk-owned SpaceX, was reportedly installed astatine the White House past month.
"And we recognize that determination is the imaginable to perchance deploy his AI exertion crossed the national agencies to regenerate the tens of thousands of national employees that person precocious been illegally fired," Stansbury claimed.
As of Tuesday, DOGE claims connected its tract that it has saved Americans $140 billion, oregon astir $870 per taxpayer.
Fox News Digital’s Andrew Mark Miller and Deirdre Heavey contributed to this report.
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