DOGE Makes HUGE Slash in Waste [Details]
There’s no room for egos when government needs to be slashed. DOGE terminated the lease of the Obama Presidential Library Site. There have been a lot of leases and contracts terminated recently, this joins the list. The library is at the Hoffman Estates in Chicago. It isn’t the same thing as the Obama Presidential Center near Jackson Park which will be completed in 2026. Local news downplayed it.
DOGE probably pushing it
The Chicago Tribune downplayed that Musk was responsible for this, saying the site was already scheduled to be moved elsewhere. You can say it’s being scheduled but then nothing happens and money is quietly diverted elsewhere.
Even though Hoffman Estates and all presidential libraries are run by the National Archives and Records Administration or NARA, the Obama Presidential Center is run by the Obama Foundation.
DOGE supposedly didn’t have impact
The cancellation was waved off as not having a lot of impact, but it saves the taxpayer almost $1.5 million. In terms of government spending it might seem small but it’s a lot of small things that add up to insane amounts.
Critics continue to downplay the heavy handed government cost cutting. Among other things, supposedly a lot of contracts were expiring anyway and whining that amounts are being inflated.
DOGE isn’t that important
Charles Tiefer is a retired University of Baltimore law professor and government contracting expert. He said, “It’s possible (DOGE) has some particular malice toward the real estate holding the archives for the last really popular two-term president. But it’s more likely that it’s fakery about unrealized savings, the same as in hundreds of other contracts.”
There are millions of unclassified documents that are now being digitized as well as a variety of artifacts. DOGE is cutting government spaces down to about half and at the same time shrinking the federal workforce.
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