First on the fox: The headquarters of housing and urban development (HUD) in Washington, DC, is one of the federal buildings that were released like an off -season “Spirit Halloween” trade while employees worked from home under the management of Biden and left relatively intact from since since since First Trump administrationFox News Digital found out.
“For four years, the US people have testified that their government buildings have been transformed overnight into mass, tax bonds funded by the taxpayer” Spirit Halloween “, said the high -ranking official of the Trump administration for Fox News Digital on Tuesday.
Spirit Halloween costume shops occupy empty stores in striptease shopping centers and shopping malls at witchcraft nights, but they usually sit for the rest of the year.
Fox News Digital learned that the HUD offices were equipped to accommodate a maximum of 6,015 people, but that the number of tables and offices was set on HUD -TEEPTSFederal building Robert C. Weaver, sits in 3,002, according to the HUD data provided by Fox News Digital.
Average number of people actually working from a building during 2023 and 2024, when the president Joe Biden He was in office, he was 705, according to the data provided by Fox News Digital.
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Scott Turner’s residential and urban development secretary, to the left, borrowed Elon Musk and his department of government efficiency from removing waste to his agency. (Associated Press/Getty)
The costs for working in a building of 10 ups-which is shaped in the popular minimalist brutalist architecture in the 1950s-takodjer come with high prices. Fiscal year 2024. Cost taxpayers 111,978,115 dollars of combined costs of rent and operational costs for Weaver building, Fox Digital learned.
Federal building Robert C. Weaver, located in Washington, DC, cost taxpayers $ 111,978,115 for rent and acting in the Fiscal Year 2024. (Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlage/Getty Images)
Fox News Digital got a photo taken at the HUD 2025 office showing a employee attracted to a white board. Administration officials confirmed Fox Digital that the card was placed on a white board on The end of Trump’s first administrationAnd obviously he remained intact in the same place until the officials under the second Trump administration noticed him.
A darkened business card that remained on Hud White Board, printed four years. (Fox News Digital)
“Because of this, President Trump voted that employees would return to the office office on behalf of the US people,” a senior administration official for Fox News Digital told. “They deserve better – eliminating fraud, waste and abuse was the cornerstone of the president’s campaign and the decisive feature of the first 100 days of President Trump.”
Scott Turner, who was previously confirmed as the 19th HUD Secretary in February, in a commentary on Fox News Digital added “Four-year holiday” under Bidana administration “is over”.
“This is a great pity for the American people and a huge waste of hard-earned dollars of taxpayers. Let me be a clear-four-year vacation is over,” Turner told Fox Digital. “I have been on many career teams and I know from the experience that personal team work provides responsibility and encourages the environment of cooperation, creativity and communication. In HUD we return to work for the American people.”
Scott Turner appears before Senate on the eve of his vote for a certificate that will serve as a minister of housing and urban development. (Getty Images)
President Donald Trump He signed a record of the first day in ordering an Oval Office Agency to abolish the arrangements of remote work that are underway from the Pandemia Coidd-19 2020.
“After the presidential memorandum to return to personal work of January 20, 2025, the initial notice of the department was sent to all HUD employees on Friday, January 24, in which he presented the HUD phase approach to return to personal work and announced dates for Phases 1 and 2, “said the administration officer for Fox News Digital of HUD working requests. “Phase 1 has already been conducted, and HUD predicts that this time lane will result in over 88% of the entire HUD’s workforce reported by the Office in the regular by February 24, 2025.”
The Government Efficiency Department, led by Elon Musk, said he had found $ 1.9 billion in the wrong housing funds and urban development. (Alex Brandon/Associated Press)
Turner confirmed the Senate on February 5, announcing only a few days later that he launched a new Government Efficiency Department (Doge) Working Group of HUD employees to remove “waste, fraud and abuse at the agency.”
Doge, who runs Elon Musk, reported in February that he had identified $ 1.9 billion in the wrong HUD funds and worked with a tour of the US Treasury.
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“Hud will be detailed and intentional about every dollar spent to serve rural, tribal and urban communities,” Turner said on Thursday. “Thanks to the leadership of President Trump, we are no longer in business position-like, and the Doge Working Group will play a critical role in helping in recognizing and removing waste, fraud and abuse and ultimately better served by the American people. We have already identified over $ 260 million savings and we have to achieve more. “
