OKLAHOMA CITY (OBV) – A Trump administration list that showed the Oklahoma City Federal Building as potentially being for sale is no longer present on the federal government website that released it.
Gov. Kevin Stitt said during his weekly news conference that he heard a rumor that the Oklahoma City Federal Building was classified as for sale by the federal government. But he did not comment on the issue further.
The OKC Federal Building was built to replace the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building that was destroyed by a terrorist bombing in 1995. The Federal Building appeared earlier this week in a U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) list of disposable non-core assets.
The General Services Administration’s Public Buildings Service identified core Federally-owned assets that are needed for critical government operations. Such assets include courthouses, land ports of entry and facilities critical to national defense and law enforcement.
Public Buildings Service (PBS) also identified 443 non-core assets that can be disposed of to cut federal costs.
PBS released the list of disposable non-core federal properties that could be sold on Tuesday.
“Selling ensures that taxpayer dollars are no longer spent on vacant or underutilized federal spaces. Disposing of these assets helps eliminate costly maintenance and allows us to reinvest in high-quality work environments that support agency missions,” the GSA website states.
The OKC Federal Building was one of many facilities that appeared on the list.
The GSA website describes the OKC Federal Building as follows:
“The Oklahoma City Federal Building, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is a national symbol of strength and resilience. Born of tragedy, the 181,000-square-foot office building replaces the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, a nine-story structure that was destroyed by a truck bomb in 1995, killing 168 people.”
GSA classified the OKC Federal Building and 442 other federal assets as obsolete, this week.
“Decades of funding deficiencies have resulted in many of these buildings becoming functionally obsolete and unsuitable for use by our federal workforce. We can no longer hope that funding will emerge to resolve these longstanding issues. GSA’s decisive action to dispose of non-core assets leverages the private sector, drives improvements for our agency customers, and best serves local communities,” GSA officials said.
The list, however, no longer appears on the website, which now states that the non-core property list is “coming soon.”
“We are identifying buildings and facilities that are not core to government operations, or non-core properties, for disposal,” GSA officials said.
Stephanie Joseph, acting associate administrator for the GSA’s Office of Strategic Communication, issued a statement to USA Today, saying the list will likely be republished in the future.
“Since publishing the initial list on March 4, 2025, we have received an overwhelming amount of interest,” she said. “We anticipate the list will be republished in the near future after we evaluate this initial input and determine how we can make it easier for stakeholders to understand the nuances of the assets listed. As we stated in our press release, ‘GSA will continuously review and update the list of non-core assets.'”
Eliminating the non-core assets will potentially save the federal government more than $430 million in annual operating costs, GSA officials claim.
President Donald Trump’s administration has been focused on slashing the federal government.
Trump appointed billionaire Elon Musk to lead his Department of Government Efficiency initiative.
DOGE has already began cutting federal jobs and funds. A DOGE tracker on the Polymarket.com website claims that the cuts have already saved taxpayers $105 billion.
The government spent $6.75 trillion in Fiscal Year 2024, according to the U.S. Department of Treasury. Musk vigorously supported Trump during his presidential election campaign and pledged during a campaign rally to cut the federal budget by $2 trillion.
However, most federal money is spent on mandatory programs like Social Security and Medicare, not federal payroll. Congressional Budget Office data for 2022 showed that approximately $271 billion (4.3 percent) of the federal budget was spent on paying federal employees and covering their benefits.
Trump previously said he would not slash entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who was chief economist in President George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers, told The New York Times that Musk and Ramaswamy have no authority over the size of the federal government. He told the Times that DOGE would be more of a thinktank.
“They don’t control the scope of government. They don’t control the size of government,” Holtz-Eakin said. “They have the bully pulpit, but that’s truly it.”
This is not the first time a president has brought someone from the business world into the federal realm to make spending cuts.
CBS News referenced President Ronald Reagan recruiting J. Peter Grace to recommend reforms. Grace made around 2,500 recommendations for cutting spending. Most of Grace’s recommendations were not implemented.
