This story was updated at 10:30 a.m. ET on March 6.
Under President Donald Trump’s administration, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has reportedly terminated leases for at least 748 federal sites, including 30 FDA facilities across 22 states.
As of March 5, the DOGE said its efforts will save nearly $468 million, according to the department’s “wall of receipts” for lease cancellations. The revised estimate is down from the $660 million DOGE originally said it would be saving for the same number of lease terminations as of March 2. The department hasn't addressed the change on its site.
The department—which is overseen by Tesla CEO Elon Musk—does not include individualized receipts for each lease but is working to upload all “receipts in a digestible and transparent manner consistent with applicable rules and regulations,” according to the site.
The DOGE doesn’t specify how the savings will be used.
The General Service Administration (GSA) has not responded for comment at the time of publication.
The majority of the listed leases are terminated “via mass mod,” which means the change was part of a revision to multiple contracts at once, while other terminations were due to consolidation.
Thirty FDA lease terminations are listed across Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin.
The DOGE didn’t clarify what specific offices are being impacted, and the FDA did not respond for comment.
Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also has a contract termination in Atlanta—where the CDC’s headquarters reside. The lease for a 119,812-square-foot space is up May 31, 2025. The closure is supposed to save about $2.5 million in annual lease payments, according to the DOGE.
The DOGE has also terminated a lease related to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in Seattle and a contract tied to a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) site in Cleveland.
Over at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, nearly 15 leases have ended.
In total, more than 100 federal departments or programs have been impacted by DOGE lease terminations as of March 2. The DOGE site is expected to be updated weekly.
The HHS and the CDC had not responded to Fierce Biotech's request for comment.
Previously, a list of more than 440 federal buildings identified as nonessential were recorded on a federal site, though the list was pulled offline March 5. The removal comes a day after the administration announced plans to divest a significant percentage of the nation's real estate footprint to comply with a Feb. 26 executive order.
An updated list of federally-held properties eligible for offloading will be online again soon, a GSA spokesperson told Fierce Healthcare.
Click here for more information about the federal government's real estate divestments, as reported by Fierce Healthcare.
This article was updated to revise the number of states impacted from 23 to 22.