As the Trump Administration looks to trim waste in federal spending, they have cancelled a lease on a building that housed the Topeka Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency. How is that wasteful spending? Well, the problem is that even though the Risk Management Agency’s physical office space in Topeka, was officially closed February 1st, the closing had been in process for several months.
The office building of 5,500 square feet has been completely empty for the last three years or more. Nobody has worked there since the pandemic and, on top of that, the building owner says the government wanted to renew the lease two years ago for another 10 years, and he said no, talking them into a two year lease because he thought it was a huge waste of taxpayer money. No jobs were lost because all employees have been working from home the past three years.
