DOGE included the library, which is currently in Chicago’s Hoffman Estates, in its extensive list of federal lease terminations. However, the library was already scheduled to closed and move to a new location, so the termination of the lease may not have any meaningful or major impacts.
According to Fox News:
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.
There are about 25 million unclassified paper documents at the Hoffman Estate building, according to NARA’s estimate, and they are currently being digitized and will be available in digital format at the Obama Presidential Center when it opens. Under the 1978 Presidential Records Act, NARA gets custody of all presidential records and artifacts when a president leaves office.
The news comes as DOGE continues to boast of major taxpayer wins, some of which President Donald Trump listed off during Tuesday evening’s address.
“Just listen to some of the appalling waste we have already identified,” Trump said during the speech, listing off several examples of how the federal government has wasted U.S. taxpayer dollars.
“…$22 billion from HHS to provide free housing and cars for illegal aliens. $45 million for Diversity Equity and Inclusion scholarships in Burma. $40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants,” Trump said. “Nobody knows what that is,” triggering laughs in the chamber.
“…$8 million to promote LGBTQI+ plus in the African nation of Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of,” he added. “$60 million for indigenous peoples and Afro-Colombian empowerment in Central America. $60 million.”
“…$8 million for making mice transgender,” he continued, reminding Americans that this is “real.”
“…$32 million for a left wing propaganda operation in Moldova. $10 million for mail circumcision in Mozambique. $20 million for the Arab Sesame Street in the Middle East … $20 million for a program. $1.9 billion to recently created decarbonization of homes … committee headed up, and we know she’s involved, just at the last moment, the money was passed over by a woman named Stacey Abrams,” Trump said, listing more bizarre items as well and promising that it is “just the beginning.”
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DOGE’s work has resulted in $108 billion in taxpayer savings thus far, according to its latest data.
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