The Government Efficiency Department led by Elon Musk (Doge) has abolished leasing at the post of Obama Presidential Library, although it is unlikely that it will affect surgery there, as it should close later this year and moved to a new place.
The library is located on Estates Hoffman in northwest Chicago and is separated from the expansion of the Obama Presidential Center of 19.3 hectares near Jackson Park In the south side of Chicago which is in the preparation and is expected to be completed next year.
The Hoffman Estates page is led by the National Archives and Records (Nara) Administration (Nara), as well as all the presidential library, while the Obamina Presidential Center is a private venture that monitors the Obama Foundation.
Doge ended the lease at the position of the Obama Presidential Library. (Alex Wong/Getty Images, Left, and Andrew Hardik/Getty Images, Right.)
Doge has updated its list of nearly 750 federal lease endings this week, about 9.6 million square meters in size, which included Hoffman Estates. Agency, borrowed by the President Donald Trump In order to reduce wasteful federal consumption, they said that interruptions would save a taxpayer $ 468 million in lease savings.
Doge website did not provide a closing schedule, although Nara spokesman told Fox News Digital, the Hoffman Estates Library was to be closed in the late fiscal year (FY) 2025 and moved to the College Park in Maryland. The Government FY 2025 passes through September 30, 2025.
In the Hoffman Estate building, on Nara’s estimate, there are about 25 million unpublished paper documents, and they are currently digitized and will be available in a digital format at the Obama Presidential Center when it is opened. According to the 1978 Presidential Records, Nara receives custody of all presidential records and artifacts when the President leaves his duty.
The rent for Obama’s presidential library at Hoffman Estates was abolished. (Google Maps)
Currently, there are also 35,000 physical artifacts on Hoffman Estates, including Date Obama gifts. The library, the former furniture exhibitions of furniture, is also the former President Barack Obama Silver Blackberry, a draft of Obama’s first introductory speech he wrote on a paper pillow, signed by Pittsburgh Steelers, a gem from Saudi Arabia and a dress worn by the former first lady of Michelle Obama.
You artifacts Maryland will also be sent and occasionally borrowed by Obama’s Presidential Center, reports Chicago Tribune.
Nara started renting a building in 2016, paying $ 1.4 million every year, according to Chicago Tribune, citing the management of general services, which manages the Government portfolio of real estate.
Obama’s presidential library is separated from the Presidential Center Obama, to the right, which is under construction. (Scott Olson/Getty Images, Left, Fox News, right.)
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The building is owned by the Hoffman Estates Medical Development LLC, which bought it in 2011 and turned it into a fortified, climate institution.
The Presidential Library of Obamine is expected to open the next time next year, and is contaminated with delays and cost exceeding. It is expected to cost $ 350 million initially, but that figure paid to $ 830 million in 2021. It is unclear what the total cost will be.
It will consist of a 235 -foot tower museum, a branch Public Library in ChicagoConference content, high school and NBA Court of Regulation. It will also include the Obama Nonfotional Foundation, which oversees the development of the center.
