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Elon Musk claims that Doge saves $ 5.2 million for Alabama federal buildings: Here are the properties

Elon Musk claims that Doge saves $ 5.2 million for Alabama federal buildings: Here are the properties

The newest Federal Agency in America, the Government Efficiency Department (Doge), claims on it Web site that he saved the taxpayers of Alabama of over $ 5 million since the closing/restoration of a half dozen federal offices in the state.

In addition, he claims that he has saved taxpayers $ 55 billion at national level since his creation.

However, some say that the department could greatly overestimated these amounts.

According to the DAGE site, it has reduced the expenses to six federal offices in the state until this year.

They are:

The National Council for Labor Relations, Birmingham, moved to the federal space

Annual rental cost: $ 101,211

Total savings: $ 227,725

Corps of civilian engineers, mobile, ending finished

Annual rental cost: $ 722.044

Total savings: $ 3,610.220 five years

Social Security Administration, Anniston, Closed Office

Annual rental cost: $ 304,228

Total savings: 608,457 USD for two years

Social Security Administration, Cullman, closed office

Annual rental cost: $ 180,784

Total savings: 512.221 USD

Equal Employment Opportunities, Mobile, Closed Office

Annual rental cost: $ 112,596

Total savings: $ 243,958

Social Security Administration, Gadsden, Closed Office

Annual rental cost: $ 32,357

Total savings: $ 67.410

The list also includes the closing of the Jasper Social Security Administration Bureau, but lists the total savings at $ 0.

The annual cost for renting the office is $ 186,411, according to the site.

In addition to closing whole offices, Doge recently cut and recently At least 100 federal employees working in the state.

Republic of US Terri Sewell, D-Ala. said on Tuesday that her office “received reports that over 100 of my elements working at the Birmingham Social Security Administration were unfairly ceased”, in a Post at X.

Subsequently, she explained that the American Federation of Government’s employees – the union representing federal workers – told her that the affected discounts “Social Security Region 4, which covers several states, including Alabama”.

While Doge discounts have already begun to affect the state’s workforce, there have been problems in verifying the validity of the department’s savings.

Dustin Gautney, a spokesman of the US Army Engineers Corps told al. Previously, without an address, the real estate division of the body is not able to identify which lease is referred.

Later, Gautney came to clarify that the body did not say that Doge had not ceased a rental contract from which the initial leasing agent could have been.

“We simply cannot confirm or deny based on the data provided,” he said.

The body of district mobile engineers manages real estate for armies from all over the bay coast, Gautney said, so it is difficult to know what the lease is related.

The leasing is completed and changed all the time, and the reference space may not be even located in the mobile, he said.

About a year ago, the body concluded a lease with the US General Services Administration for the second story of a Federal -owned building on St. Michael Street from Downtown Mobile. The square mystery approximately the rented body was 24,000 square meters.

The building was used by the federal judicial system by 2020, and has since been used by several federal agencies, Gautney said.

But the lease was concluded before Doge’s creation, which was created by executive order after President Donald Trump was inaugurated last month and, therefore, could not have been involved in terminating the rental contract.

A recent NPR analysis also found that the site overestimates $ 55 billion in Doge de Slash’s government spending by A few billion dollars.

“Six other current and federal contracting officers who talked to the NPR about the condition of anonymity, for fear of reprisals, say that the Dog Savings page is misleading with the data it includes – such as overestimating the maximum possible value of the canceled contracts. – Also, as if they leave, they say, as it was already budgeted and spent to fulfill The contract, ”writes Stephen Fowler from NPR.

Efforts to reach the National Council for Work Relations in Birmingham, EEOC in Mobile and the three Alabama Social Security offices included in Doge’s list were not immediately successful.