DOGE closing 6 more federal offices in Michigan, claims $480K in ‘savings’
Updated: Mar. 03, 2025, 4:19 p.m.|Published: Mar. 03, 2025, 10:01 a.m.
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By Matt Durr | mattdurr@mlive.com
Editor’s Note: DOGE has updated its website to show the departments impacted by the closures.
More federal office buildings appear to be closing in Michigan according to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Data posted to the agency’s “Wall of Receipts” claims six leases have been terminated for offices located throughout Michigan.
“However, information about which government agencies leased the properties, the properties' addresses, and other key details is missing from the DOGE website. The listed lease cancellations only show the amount of the yearly lease and the total savings.
When DOGE announced last week that it was closing an office in Okemos, it was listed as a Social Security Administration facility. That detail is no longer included on the DOGE website. Instead, the main agency for all cancelled leases is listed as General Services Administration or there is no agency listed at all.
The six latest leases cancelled in Michigan are located in the following cities:
Baraga -- A 1,200 square-foot facility. Cancelling the lease will save $14,400.
Detroit -- An 856 square-foot facility. The yearly lease is worth $17,120 and the cancellation will save $72,760 total.
Grand Rapids -- A 2,145 square-foot facility. Cancelling the lease will save $51,742 yearly and $202,657 total.
Marquette -- A 3,122 square-foot facility. $53,343 will be saved in the closure.
Sault Ste. Marie -- An 1,100 square-foot facility. Cancelling the lease will save $34,375 yearly and $85,937 total.
Traverse City -- A 798 square-foot facility. The cut will save $28,638 yearly and $50,117 total.
In total, DOGE claims closing the facilities will save $480,214.
The lease cancellations come as DOGE continues to slash the budgets of other government agencies at the direction of President Donald Trump. In January, Trump established DOGE via executive order and said the agency will be modernizing “Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.”
As of March 2, DOGE claims to have saved the government $105 billion through “contract, grant, and lease cancellations,” according to the DOGE website. However, critics have pointed out that some of the claimed “savings” haven’t been accurately reported. One contract reportedly saved $8 billion, but was actually only worth $8 million.
In other instances, the total value of some of the contracts have already been fully obligated, meaning the government is required to spend the funds for the goods or services it purchased and may have already completed those purchases.”
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By Matt Durr | mattdurr@mlive.com
Editor’s Note: DOGE has updated its website to show the departments impacted by the closures.
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