Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has terminated the lease for the Obama Presidential Library in Chicago.
DOGE included the library, which is currently in Chicago’s Hoffman Estates, in its extensive list of federal lease terminations.
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According to reports 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.
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Fox News reports: DOGE this week updated its list of nearly 750 federal lease terminations, totaling around 9.6 million square feet in size, which included the Hoffman Estates site. The agency, which has been tasked by President Donald Trump to cut wasteful federal spending, said the terminations will save the taxpayer $468 million in lease savings.
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.