DOGE targets Arkansas federal offices for lease terminations | What we know

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — At least fifteen federal offices that are located in Arkansas have been listed by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as part of its effort to terminate leases across the United States.

The move to shrink office space owned or used by the federal government comes along with the Trump administration’s plan to either close or sell over 400 properties. Some of those federal buildings include the FBI headquarters and the main Dept. of Justice location, with the reasoning that the properties are “not core to government operations.”

DOGE, which is being spearheaded by eccentric billionaire Elon Musk, is also cutting thousands of federal contracts along with the leases. In the past week, the department’s website was updated to remove mistakes from its “wall of receipts,” which erased roughly $4 billion in expected savings, according to a New York Times report…

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