Sun picnic tables? How did the federal government treat your taxes completely by underestimating?
On Tuesday, the Government Sub -Panel of the Parliamentary Surveillance Committee held a hearing of billions of taxpayers every year in fashion -outdated federal buildings.
The Republican Georgian Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who led the sub -committee in providing government productivity (Dogge), opened the hearing to maintain an inflated real estate footprint. He promised to continue to push the federal government’s real estate portfolio to the “right size ..
“Here in DC, [the Government Accountability Office] In 2023, he found that the majority of the federal agency headquarters buildings were occupied less than 25% – some are much less, Greene said Greene. Meanwhile, from 2022 to 2024, the accumulation of postponed maintenance in aging buildings grew from $ 216 billion to $ 370 billion. This is more than one third of a trillion dollars that will cost them if we don’t sell them. “
Under Biden, DC, enlarged lands, empty offices, wasted cash.
By working with @DogecommitteeWe will ensure that the federal government does not prevent growth.
We will interrupt federal real estate rentals, save billions of people, and rebuild a capital that we may be proud of. pic.twitter.com/q04mt6wyjd
– Congress Member William Timmons (@reptimmons) April 8, 2025
State Accounting Office (GAO) marked Federal property administration as a “high -risk” field since 2003. Nevertheless, despite twenty years of warnings, the Biden administration allowed billions of billions of not only to protect empty offices, but also in generous furniture purchases.
Greene emphasized early Trump management movements, including canceling approximately 700 federal leasing in a total area of 7.9 million feet in a total of 7.9 million feet areas. Such a canceled lease agreement 15 -year, quarter billion dollar agreement For the luxury office area on Pennsylvania Boulevard, Biden has signed the American Voice and the US Global Media Agency. Greene said that the building has zero broadcasting capabilities and that taxpayers would be hooked for renewals for $ 130 million.
John Hart, CEO of Watchdog Group OpenHEBOOKS, framed the issue as visceral.
Hart, “Today’s wide, extreme and sometimes rich federal real estate portfolio is a monument of the administrative state and the tomb of missing dreams, opportunities and freedom for American taxpayers,” he said. “Does federal employees need abstract modern art worth seven figures to manage the government?”
Hart said that agencies have spent $ 4.6 billion on furniture since the 2021 financial year. 284,000 dollars in fema conference halls and almost 120,000 dollars for leather reclliners For the US Embassy in Islamabad. Hart also $ 238,000 CDC spent on solar -energy picnic tables The agency said, ım I should have sat empty -handed, ”he said by his own social distance rules.
David Marroni from GAO reiterated the concern about dysfunction and inertia in the federal property apparatus.
Marroni said to the MPs, “a spotlight shone to these long -standing problems,” Marroni said. “The federal government continued to have a lot of fields and was very slow in the shedding of less used properties.
Marroni said that the agencies were forced to start watching real building usage data starting this summer for the first time.
The Democrats in the panel said that the rapid disposal plan of the Trump administration was ideologically directed and economically reckless.
Democratic New Mexico Representative Melanie Stansbury said, “Some of the agenda here is really about the dismantling of the administrative state and the real assets of the federal government to do so,” he said. in question at the hearing. “The point here is very clear that everything is not what it seems in Washington, DC, and that it is not related to the federal taxpayers and the American people. This is about the sale of federal property and fire to make the rich richer.”
Republicans fired. Texas representative Pat Fallon showed that 17 of GAO’s largest 24 federal agents used less than 25% of office capacity. Republican South Carolina representative William Timmons, the target is to evacuate waste and inject a new life into the dead office area, he said. They quoted under reforms Federal Property Management Law And Federal asset sales and transfer law As a roadmap for future consolidation in 2016.
Orum I guarantee that a developer who is a major bad developer will come in, Tim said Timmons, Timmons. “They will build this big building, they will put houses and pay taxes. This is the highest and best use.”
Greene said that the Doge sub -committee plans to regulate the disposal process for excess federal property and to bring more strict accountable measures for future real estate acquisitions. He also said that the lower committee would work closely with the White House and Gao to accelerate celloffs and rental termination.
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