内容摘要：A woman with a dog visits the spot of George Floyd’s murder at George Floyd Square on the five-year anniversary of Floyd’s death, Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

A woman with a dog visits the spot of George Floyd’s murder at George Floyd Square on the five-year anniversary of Floyd’s death, Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

Elon Musk attends the finals for the NCAA wrestling championship, Saturday, March 22, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)Elon Musk attends the finals for the NCAA wrestling championship, Saturday, March 22, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)

An engineer at Tesla, the billionaire’s electric car company, runs the GSA’s technology division. And one of Musk’s trusted lieutenants is helping to spearhead the work of downsizing the government’s real estate footprint.GSA oversees many of Uncle Sam’s real estate transactions, collecting and paying rent on behalf of almost every federal agency. It helps manage billions in federal contracts. And it assists other agencies in building better websites and digital tools for citizens.It is so important because it is “a choke point for all agencies,” said Steven Schooner, a George Washington University law school professor who specializes in government contracting. “They can, in effect, stop all civilian agencies from purchasing, period. That’s everything.”

In a statement in early March, GSA said it planned to get rid of “non-core assets” and welcomed “creative solutions, including sale-lease backs, ground leases and other forms of public/private partnerships.”The search for those cuts has engulfed the entire 12,000-person agency. At the helm of that push is the GSA’s acting administrator, Stephen Ehikian, the tech executive whose wife worked for X.

“GSA was built for this moment,” Ehikian told employees last month in a meeting, a video of which was viewed by The Associated Press.

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