Reducing the footprint: The push to optimize government office space
Reducing the footprint: The push to optimize government office space  
Podcast: Federal Drive with Tom Temin
Published On: Thu Apr 03 2025
Description: Federal agencies have more office space than they need, and under DOGE their accelerating plans to get rid of it. It might be easy to forget those efforts actually first got momentum under the Obama administration, it established policies to freeze and then reduce the so called Federal Real Estate footprint. It's one of the significant moments the Federal News Network is looking back on as we mark our 25th anniversary. Federal News Network's Jory Heckman has more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices