Trump managers delete the list of federal properties for a possible sale

Trump administration identified more than 440 federal properties that could be sold on Trump on Trump on Tuesday, a list that included high -level buildings such as FBI headquarters, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Health and Social Services.

Wednesday morning, the entire inventory had been removed, replaced by an agency web page which indicates that the list of properties “arrived soon”.

The General Services Administration, an agency that manages the federal real estate portfolio, had already revised the list at least once. In the hours following its publication, around 100 properties, many of which in the Washington, DC, DC region, were deleted.

The changes aroused confusion in terms of the Trump administration to unload a large quantity of federal goods. Heads of the General Services Administration said that “elimination” of buildings could help save hundreds of millions of dollars and guarantee that taxpayers do not have to pay for “the underutilized federal office space”. But the list was quickly criticized by democratic legislators and some former federal officials who were concerned about the potential impact on government services across the country.

The agency did not immediately respond to requests for information on the reasons why the list had been deleted.

The original version of the list included the offices of several departments at the office level and other large spaces used by the Department of Agriculture and the Nuclear Regulation Commission. These were part of the deleted buildings when the list was reduced to 320 properties. Always included for a possible sale in this version: buildings used by the centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as well as for offices on the field of the Social Security Administration in areas like the west of Pennsylvania and Saginaw, Mich.

The federal buildings which were about a million square feet were marked for a possible sale in Los Angeles, Atlanta, St. Louis, Cleveland, Memphis and Kansas City, in Missouri. In New York, the properties included offices for the United States Mission in the United Nations, as well as two buildings in the city center which have offices for federal prosecutors in the southern New York district and the internal income service.