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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has terminated the lease for the Barack Obama Presidential Library site in Chicago.
BREAKING: Elon Musk’s DOGE has terminated the lease at the Obama Presidential Library site. pic.twitter.com/4zQp3szoNR
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Fox News reports:
The library is located at the Hoffman Estates in the northwest of Chicago and is separate to the sprawling 19.3-acre Obama Presidential Center near Jackson Park in the southside of Chicago which is under construction and is expected to be completed next year.
The site at the Hoffman Estates is run by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), as are all presidential libraries, while the Obama Presidential Center is a private venture being overseen by the Obama Foundation.
DOGE this week updated its list of nearly 750 federal lease terminations, totaling around 9.6 million square feet in size, which included the Hoffman Estates site. The agency, which has been tasked by President Donald Trump to cut wasteful federal spending, said the terminations will save the taxpayer $468 million in lease savings.
The DOGE website did not provide a timetable for the closures, although a NARA spokesperson told Fox News Digital the Hoffman Estates library was scheduled to close in late Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 and move to College Park in Maryland. The government’s FY 2025 runs through Sept. 30, 2025.
BREAKING: DOGE terminates lease at Obama Presidential Library site – FOX pic.twitter.com/KjMeiS6lEX
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DOGE says it’s closing Hoffman Estates’ Obama Presidential Library site, but federal officials had already announced lease endinghttps://t.co/ggLge3JtBN
— Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) March 3, 2025
From the Chicago Tribune:
The DOGE announcements are part of a Trump administration plan to shed up to half of all government office space across the nation, leased and owned, while also shrinking the federal workforce. Trump officials say the effort will prune hundreds of billions in spending and curtail fraud.
Musk has made a big splash over the past month, announcing the cancellation of thousands of federal contracts and hundreds of leases.
But nearly 40% of the nearly 2,300 announced contract terminations won’t cut spending, according to administration data examined by The Associated Press, mostly because the funds were already spent or committed.
“Not only can I not see how they’re going to save any money, but it just strikes me as amateur hour,” Tiefer said.
The Barack Obama Presidential Library is in an unassuming building near the intersection of Golf and Barrington roads, surrounded by shopping malls and is not open to the public.