‘For Sale’: DOGE moves to sell off almost half a billion in federal real estate, relocate cabinet agency HQs

EXCLUSIVE: The Senate’s DOGE person is hoping to springiness the U.S. Treasury different boost successful cutting the $36 trillion nationalist debt, this clip by selling disconnected immoderate large existent property successful Washington, D.C., presently location to several salient furniture agencies.

The office of the Departments of Energy, Housing & Urban Development, on with ancillary buildings location to different apical agencies, would beryllium sold disconnected but without attrition oregon layoffs, arsenic the employees therein would beryllium relocated elsewhere, according to Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa.

The "For Sale Act" would enactment the James Forrestal Federal Building connected the market, 1 of six properties identified by the Senate DOGE Caucus arsenic ripe for removal from the national government’s portfolio.

The imposing modernist structure, which hovers crossed L’Enfant Plaza arsenic a transverse betwixt an bureau gathering and a pedestrian bridge, was erstwhile known arsenic the "Little Pentagon" and location to overflow Department of Defense unit during the Vietnam War.

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The James W. Forrestal Federal Building, oregon "Little Pentagon," present houses the Department of Energy. (Getty)

The Department of Energy moved successful aft then-President Jimmy Carter created the bureau successful 1977.

Several different buildings on Independence Avenue successful the Federal Center conception of Washington – truthful named for its panoply of national offices – would deed the marketplace arsenic well.

Directly westbound of the Forrestal, 1 of the Agriculture Department’s outbuildings connected Independence is connected DOGE’s database for mandatory sale.

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From near to right, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, Sen. Joni Ernst, Sen. Steve Daines and Sen. John Thune. (Reuters)

That gathering is astatine astir one-quarter capableness and is successful request of astir $2 cardinal successful upgrades oregon maintenance, Republicans said.

Ernst quipped the Agriculture gathering is the cleanable "fixer-upper" to beryllium connected the market.

The Hubert H. Humphrey Jr. gathering – named for erstwhile President Lyndon Johnson’s vice president – tin beryllium seen by postulation glancing close arsenic they exit Interstate 395’s Third Street Tunnel adjacent the U.S. Capitol.

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The Robert C. Weaver Federal Building. (Getty Images )

It houses the Department of Health and Human Services and would besides beryllium required to beryllium enactment connected the marketplace wrong 18 months of the For Sale Act’s passage.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s office is besides connected the list, arsenic the curved X-shaped granite building, officially called the Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, is "underutilized," according to DOGE’s rubric.

The Theodore Roosevelt Building, astatine the ft of Interstate 66 conscionable westbound of the White House, on with the Frances Perkins Federal Building connected the different broadside of the city, rounds retired the list.

The authorities would besides person safeguards against overseas entities buying up the buildings – arsenic China and different rivals person purchased onshore by proxy precise adjacent to delicate installations similar a large Air Force basal successful North Dakota.

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services successful the Hubert H. Humphrey Building successful Washington, D.C., connected Monday, March 10, 2025. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Additionally, immoderate entity successful which a overseas nationalist is simply a "beneficial owner" would beryllium prohibited from participating successful immoderate national existent property sales.

Taxpayers ammunition retired astir $81 cardinal to support underutilized oregon unutilized national offices, according to a Biden-era report to Congress from the Office of Management and Budget.

About 7,700 national bureau spaces are vacant and 2,200 are majority-empty, according to a Congressional Research Service report.

Annual attraction connected 277,000 national buildings tops $10 cardinal per year, according to an April Government Accountability Office report.

Ernst and DOGE antecedently successfully mandated the merchantability of the aging Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building successful Federal Center. Within its 1.2 cardinal quadrate feet, lone 72 radical were moving determination arsenic of 2024. 

It formerly housed offices for Voice of America and the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors.