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Trump and Musk demand termination of federal office leases through General Services Administration (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago by conditional_soup@lemm.ee to c/usnews@beehaw.org

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https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-gsa-terminate-office-leases-f8faac5e2038722f705587c8dd21ab26

Last week, regional managers for the General Services Administration, or GSA, received a message from the agency’s Washington headquarters to begin terminating leases on all of the roughly 7,500 federal offices nationwide, according to an email shared with The Associated Press by a GSA employee.

The order seems to contradict Trump’s own return-to-office mandate for federal employees, adding confusion to what was already a scramble by the GSA to find workspace, internet connections and office building security credentials for employees who had been working remotely for years.

But it may reflect the Trump administration’s belief that it won’t need as many offices due to its efforts to fire employees or encourage them to resign.

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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Closing up 7500 federal offices basically overnight is going to be a goddamn disaster in so many ways. On the bright side, they're going to flood the states with competent administrators, so that makes another argument for balkanization being likely in our future.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Trump is supposed to be working for property owners. Vacating leases at any scale, let alone this, works against their interests. There just aren't going to be any winners not named Trump or Musk in this regime.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've been wondering if the ultimate goal here isn't the re-establishment of feudalism

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 months ago

Maybe in the hinterlands, but any town of a size to exercise real influence will have its own democratic institutions thoroughly enshrined in local and regional laws.

Anything Trump tears down at the Federal level will likely be re-worked into inter-state, regional, or even intra-state agreements. Except in the rural areas, which, let's be real, are mostly run by local oligarchs, if at all, anyways.