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Here’s how much office space Musk’s DOGE claims it will cut

The Real Deal analyzes affected leases and finds some holes in reporting

These Are the Office Leases DOGE Plans to CUT
Elon Musk (Illustration by The Real Deal with Getty)
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The Department of Government Efficiency expects to shed more than two million square feet of federal office space and reduce the government’s rent bill by over $144 million, according to The Real Deal’s analysis of data posted to what DOGE calls its “Wall of Receipts.”

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Those cuts hit Washington, D.C., the hardest — about 1.4 million square feet of leases valued at $49 million were cancelled or restructured in that city, if the accounting is correct. But as The Real Deal analyzed the recently released list of affected leases, we found some holes.

Click here to read the full analysis and see every property affected (TRD Data subscribers only).   

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