https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-gsa-terminate-office-leases-f8faac5e2038722f705587c8dd21ab26

Last week, regional managers for the General Services Administration, or GSA, received a message from the agency’s Washington headquarters to begin terminating leases on all of the roughly 7,500 federal offices nationwide, according to an email shared with The Associated Press by a GSA employee.

The order seems to contradict Trump’s own return-to-office mandate for federal employees, adding confusion to what was already a scramble by the GSA to find workspace, internet connections and office building security credentials for employees who had been working remotely for years.

But it may reflect the Trump administration’s belief that it won’t need as many offices due to its efforts to fire employees or encourage them to resign.

  • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgMEnglish
    13·
    6 days ago

    What. The. Actual. Fuck.

    Dude, you’ve got four years to destroy democracy. You don’t have to do it week three.

    • conditional_soup@lemm.eeOP
      13·
      6 days ago

      This is going to seem pedantic, but the distinction matters to me. Musk isn’t destroying democracy here as much as he’s blowing the legs off the administrative state. This is 100% going to have serious consequences for a lot of people, including for the Trump administration. The upshot here is that they’re going to need the administrators and administrative infrastructure they’re throwing away here when they go to do their Nazi shit, and it’s not going to be there.

      • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgMEnglish
        6·
        6 days ago

        There’s a distinction, but not one that I’m seeing. This is an unelected oligarch making these calls. If that’s not a failure of democracy, we set the bar in different places. But while it’s nice to think that gutting the administrative state would result in incompetence at Naziing, they aren’t looking to remove it, just replace everyone with loyalists to the junta.