The Trump administration unveiled plans Tuesday to sell or close more than 400 federal properties across the country, potentially including buildings like the FBI headquarters and the Department of Justice’s main building, as part of its aggressive government efficiency initiative.
The General Services Administration (GSA) published a list of 443 “non-core” properties that span nearly 80 million square feet of space—approximately 12 times the size of the Pentagon—which the administration claims could save taxpayers more than $430 million in annual operating costs.
“We are identifying buildings and facilities that are not core to government operations, or non-core properties for disposal,” the GSA stated on its website. “Selling ensures that taxpayer dollars are no longer spent on vacant or underutilized federal spaces. Disposing of these assets helps eliminate costly maintenance and allows us to reinvest in high-quality work environments that support agency missions.”
The list includes numerous high-profile buildings in Washington, D.C., including the J. Edgar Hoover Building (FBI headquarters), the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, and even the Old Post Office building, where President Trump once operated a hotel. Also under scrutiny are the headquarters of the Department of Labor and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Outside Washington, notable properties include the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco, the Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center, and the Major General Emmett J. Bean Federal Center in Indiana. The list also features numerous IRS service centers in cities including Ogden, Utah; Memphis, Tennessee; Atlanta; Austin, Texas; and Andover, Massachusetts.
The property sell-off represents the latest move in what has been a sweeping efficiency campaign led by the president’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by billionaire Elon Musk.
Last month, GSA regional managers reportedly received instructions to begin terminating leases on all of the roughly 7,500 federal offices nationwide, with a goal of canceling as many as 300 leases per day.
“Decades of funding deficiencies have resulted in many of these buildings becoming functionally obsolete and unsuitable for use by our federal workforce,” the GSA’s Public Buildings Service explained in a statement. They promised to consider the buildings’ futures “in an orderly fashion to ensure taxpayers no longer pay for empty and underutilized federal office space.”
The administration has simultaneously mandated that all federal workers report to offices daily, even as it works to reduce unused or outdated office space.
While supporters herald the move as a long-overdue trimming of government waste, critics have questioned whether efficiency can be maintained with such dramatic reductions in federal facilities.