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First on fox: Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst presented Thursday that will clarify the Trump administration’s approach to selling federal properties, Fox News Digital.
“Despite President Trump calling Federal Perferal workers to work, vacant government buildings could easily be mistaken for the future locations of haunted Halloween shops,” Ernst said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“For too long, entrenched bureaucracy has used red tape to protect these poka towns from being sold,” he continued. The act of his disposal “quickly listed six pieces of DC Real Estate on the Auction Block and struck through the laws of quick sale the sale of millions of dollars to generate hundreds of billions of dollars and save billions in taxes.”
Ernst is the founder and Chairman of the Senate Department of Caving Caunces, and he first pointed out the federal government’s lack of its organizational structures back in 2023 when he released the pandemic, when Federal employees were working from home during the shutdown authorized by the government.
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Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst made a presentation Thursday that will clarify the Trump administration’s approach to selling off federal properties. (Reuters)
The disclosure of “abandoning active buildings and properties by offering for sale and lease (abandonment) is an act to renew efforts to sell six pieces of federal properties in Washington, DC, which are closely watched by various federal agencies.
The law specifically calls for the administration of general services to sell Frances Perkins Federal Hord, at home in the United States Department of Education; Department of Energy James V. Forrestal Building; Theodore Roosevelt Federal Hord, home to the Office of Personnel Management; The Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, where the Department of Communications and Urban Development was being developed before announcing in June that it was planned to leave; United States Department of Agriculture South Building; And the Hubert H. Humphrey Federal HOLD, which is the headquarters of the Department of Health and Human Services.
The James V. Forrestal Building fronting the U.S. Department of Energy headquarters, seen on June 3, 2025, in Washington. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)
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There are an average of 7,700 vacant properties statewide and another 2,265 sitting vacant, according to Ernst’s office.
The Office of Management and Budget reported in 2023 that the annual cost of using federal buildings was taken “under $81.346 million, while the General Services, while the General Services, while the Backlogs General Services reported $6 billion and will look closely at $6 billion in five years. The General Services Administration points to hundreds that “which is not the core“Federal buildings in all nations in March can be put up for sale.
Mold, accroaches and unpleasant water have also plagued the organization’s buildings, according to various recent reports.
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The legislation will clear the way for the Trump administration to make more sales of the line, should it pass. The sale of state buildings is wrapped in red tape and procedures, and a bill that works to move the process by authorizing the sale of the highest level for up to 20 years. “
President Donald Doge’s efforts to reduce the size of the federal government and eliminate corruption and fraud marked his first term in office. Trump also ran for federal workers who have stopped reporting to the office since the pandemic, vowing during his joint address to Congress in March that it would end.
“We have hundreds of thousands of state workers who have not shown up to work,” he said. “My administration will restore power to this unpopular pureacracy, and we will restore democracy to America again. Any Federal Bureaucrat who opposes this change will be removed from office immediately.”
Ernst and Doge previously successfully approved the sale of the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in June, which is the voice of the American of America which is 1.2 million. Only 72 people worked in the 2024 building, FOX News Digital previously reported.
US President Donald Trump exits Air Force One on September 21, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
FOX News Digital reported back in February that the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) headquarters in DC, which employs nearly 6,000 people, is a workhorse of such a bid clock. Administration officials confirmed to Fox News Digital at the time that one HUD office still had a business card left over from the Trump Administration that was left on a whiteboard when the second administration reported following Trump’s inauguration.
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Erchst’s October law follows the Bill that he introduced in June that called for the sale of six Federal funds that will generate at least $ 400 million in excess funds in buildings.
