For Sale Act targets Energy, HUD buildings to reduce national debt

EXCLUSIVE: The leader of the Senate Doge hopes to give the US Treasury another increase in the reduction of the national debt of 36 billions of dollars, this time by selling major real estate in Washington, DC, currently sheltering Several prominent cabinet agencies.

The seat of Energy departmentsHousing and urban development, as well as auxiliary buildings which house other higher agencies, would be sold but without attrition or layoff, because the employees who are there Senator Joni Ernst, R -Iwa.

The “Sale law” would put the federal building James Forrestal on the market, one of the six properties identified by the Senate caucus as ripe for the withdrawal of the federal government’s portfolio.

The imposing modernist structure, which hangs over the child Plaza as a cross between an office building and a pedestrian bridge, was once known as “Little Pentagon” and housing the Department of Defense overflows during the Vietnam War.

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The Ministry of Energy moved after the president of the time, Jimmy Carter, created the agency in 1977.

Several other buildings along the independence avenue in the section of the Washington Federal Center – so appointed for its panoply of federal offices – would also arrive on the market.

Directly west of Forrestal, one of the dependencies of the department of agriculture on independence is on the DOGE list for compulsory sale.

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This building has a capacity of approximately a quarter and needs almost $ 2 billion in upgrades or maintenance, the Republicans said.

Ernst quipped the agricultural building is the “fixer-subsistence” perfect for being on the market.

The building of Hubert H. Humphrey Jr. – Appointed for the vice -president of former president Lyndon Johnson – can be seen while looking at traffic as they leave the tunnel of the third rue de l’Interstate 395 near the American Capitol.

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It houses the Ministry of Health and Social Services and should also be put on the market within 18 months of the adoption of the Sale law.

The department of Housing and Urban Development The headquarters is also on the list, because the curved X-shaped granite building, officially called Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, is “underused”, according to the Doge section.

The Theodore Roosevelt building, at the foot of the Interstate 66 just west of the White House, as well as the federal building Frances Perkins on the other side of the city, completes the list.

The legislation would also have guarantees against foreign entities that buy buildings – because China and other competitors have bought land by proxy very close to sensitive installations such as a large air base in the Dakota of the North.

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In addition, any entity in which a foreign national is a “beneficial owner” would be prohibited to participate in any sale of federal real estate.

Taxpayers spend approximately $ 81 million to maintain underused or unused federal offices, according to a Report of the Biden era at the Congress of the Management and Budget Office.

About 7,700 federal office spaces are vacant and 2,200 Congress Research Service report.

Annual maintenance on 277,000 federal buildings exceeds $ 10 billion per year, according to an April Government Office of Responsibility.

Ernst and Doge previously forced the sale of the Federal Building of Wilbur J. Cohen at the Federal Center. In its 1.2 million square feet, only 72 people worked there in 2024.

It previously housed the offices of Voice of America and the Council of Governors of American broadcasting.