On Tuesday, the American district judge Beryl Howell effectively allowed the transfer of the construction of the headquarters in the United States of the Institute of Peace for General Services Administration.
In fact, the building – and the whole property in it – has already been moved on Saturday, according to Howell’s ruling. “The contract is no longer only” proposed “but made,” Howell wrote, “By granting reasons they asked for a disputed release for this property.”
The building, with an estimated value of $ 500 million, became the latest focal point in a weekly dispute between the former management of the Institute and the staff and members of the so -called government department Elon Musk. On March 14, Trump’s administration dismissed 10 members of the OSPIP Voting Council. When USIP employees forbade Doge employees before entering the headquarters in Washington, the Doge team returned a few days later with the physical key they received from the former security contractor.
The takeover was both physical and institutional. A former official of the State Department, Kenneth Jackson, was installed as the president of the USIP, and then replaced on March 25 by the Doge Nate Cavanaugh employee, who was previously assigned to the administration of general services. Until the last Friday evening, most USIP employees received notifications about the solution to the solution, effectively closing the agency.
The fight for the building came to lithe on Monday through court documents in a lawsuit submitted by former USIP employees against Cavanaugh, Doge, Donald Trump and other members of the administration. They not only reveal that Cavanaugh has recently moved to move the building to GSA, but that he planned to do so without any costs for the government.
In the letter contained in the Cavanaugh court, GSA says the duties of administrator Stephen Ehikian that the transfer “is in the best interest of USIP, the federal government and the United States.” In a separate letter of March 29, the management director and the Russell Vaught budget approved Ehikian’s application to “determine the amount of reimbursement without any costs” for the object.
A previously unknown assembly court speaks to the justification of Trump’s administration for an attempt to take over the building.
“Transfer of American institutes [sic] The headquarters of the main room (USIP) … is the priority of the Trump-Vance administration, “wrote Michael Peters from GSA, who spent almost a decade running a dental practice management company before he was named commissioner Public buildings service In January, in the form of transfer application. “Transfer will allow GSA to satisfy other governmental spatial requirements at the headquarters of the USIP in a profitable way. However, GSA did not have the right time for the budget for the costs of purchasing a federal headquarters fund according to the Federal Fund.”
In other words, GSA needs an office space, but it cannot afford to get it according to a fair market value. (At the beginning of this year, GSA directed to hundreds of government buildings to sell, including the headquarters of the FBI and a sophisticated CIA apartment.