President Donald Trump is reportedly planning to sell the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco, California, a move that has drawn backlash from state Democrats.
According to WABC-TV on Thursday, the Trump administration intends to sell the property named for the former House speaker, along with a building at 50 United Nations Plaza.
The strategy is aimed at cutting maintenance costs while leasing space for federal office workers as needed.
Former California Democratic Representative Jackie Speier stated that the sales do not make sense and claimed without any evidence that the action reflects Trump lashing out at his political rivals.
“It’s another example of how he is coming after Democrats,” she declared. “He’s coming after California, and it’s all about payback.”
She added: “The lease will keep going up and you will end up paying the property taxes of the lessor, whereas you don’t pay federal taxes when you are a federal government.”
The Trump administration may also consider selling the Leo J. Ryan Federal Records Center, named after the former congressman killed in the 1978 Jonestown massacre.
According to WABC-TV, Trump recently issued an executive order targeting the Presidio Trust—a federal agency established in 1996 to manage 1,500 acres of historic parks and properties in San Francisco.
Trump’s order reiterated that “it is the policy of my Administration to dramatically reduce the size of the Federal Government, while increasing its accountability to the American people.”
“This order commences a reduction in the elements of the Federal bureaucracy that the President has determined are unnecessary,” the order added. “Reducing the size of the Federal Government will minimize Government waste and abuse, reduce inflation, and promote American freedom and innovation.”
The Presidio Trust stated that it will continue normal operations, emphasizing that it has not relied on federal funding since 2013 and has generated revenue through building leases, the Western Journal reported.
“We will present a report on our activities to the Office of Management and Budget, as required by the order, in two weeks,” the organization said. “We are confident that our activities are all statutorily-based.”
Former California Senator Barbara Boxer also spoke against the effort.
“I would say to this administration, whether it’s the President Trump or [Elon] Musk or all those [Department of Government Efficiency] people, that when something is a raging success, keep your hands off it,” she said.
A spokesperson for Pelosi, who secured $200 million for federal maintenance projects in 2023 for the Presidio Trust, said that “the Presidio Trust is statutory, and it has been protected from assaults over time by its statutory strength.”
“We will be carefully reviewing the language of the President’s executive order and its purpose,” the spokesperson vowed.
Meanwhile, Trump is stepping things up a notch just one month into his presidency, accelerating his actions to provoke progressives in Washington.
In a post on social media on Saturday, the president praised Musk for exposing wasteful government spending. Musk is already the number one enemy of Democrats.
After that, he told Musk to do even more.
“ELON IS DOING A GREAT JOB, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM GET MORE AGGRESSIVE,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, with typical all-caps emphasis. “REMEMBER, WE HAVE A COUNTRY TO SAVE, BUT ULTIMATELY, TO MAKE GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE. MAGA!”
That was bad for liberals, but Musk’s answer had to be even worse.
“Will do, Mr. President!” he wrote on the social media platform X.
In addition to shuttering USAID, Musk’s DOGE team is targeting the Department of Education and the Internal Revenue Service and is even eyeing an audit of the Defense Department, according to various reports that have been published.
