Government watchers swift enough to view a list of 443 federal properties that could be put up for sale posted Tuesday on the U.S. General Services Administration website might have seen a pair on Hawaii properties deemed “not core to government operations” and eligible for “disposal”: the Federal Building, U.S. Post Office and Courthouse in Hilo and the Fort Armstrong Parking Lot in Honolulu.
The Trump administration has discussed selling unused or non-essential properties as part of its overall campaign to reduce costs across the federal government. The list posted by GSA originally included the FBI headquarters at the J. Edgar Hoover Building, the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and other notable properties.
Within hours, however, the list was shortened to 320 properties, with all Washington, D.C. properties among the entries removed…