Hundreds of federal offices could begin closing this summer at DOGE's behest, internal records show

Elon Musk's budget-cutting advisers to terminate leases that they say waste money.
Musk's Department of Government Efficiency maintains a list of canceled real estate leases on its website, but internal documents obtained by The Associated Press contain a crucial detail: when those cancellations are expected to take effect. The documents from inside the General Services Administration, the US government's real estate manager, list dozens of federal office and building leases expected to end by June 30, with hundreds more slated over the coming months.
The rapid pace of cancellations has raised alarms, with some agencies and lawmakers appealing to DOGE to exempt specific buildings. Several agencies are facing 20 or more lease cancellations in all, including the IRS, the Social Security Administration, the US Department of Agriculture and the US Geological Survey.
Many of the terminations would affect agencies that aren't as well-known but oversee services critical to many Americans.
They span from a Boise, Idaho, office of the Bureau of Reclamation — which oversees water supply and deals with disputes across the often-parched American West — to a Joliet, Illinois, outpost of the Railroad Retirement Board, which provides benefits for railroad workers and their survivors.

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The lease terminations do not mean all the locations will close. In some cases, agencies may negotiate new leases to stay in place, downsize their existing space or relocate elsewhere.
«Some agencies are saying: I'm not leaving. We can't leave,'» said Chad Becker, a former GSA real estate official who now represents building owners with government leases at Arco Real Estate Solutions. «I think there's going to be a period of pushback, a