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A total of seven federal offices in Iowa are on the chopping block as a part of President Donald Trump’s ambitious mission to reduce government spending.
Earlier this month, the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency revealed nearly 800 federal leases totaling more than 10 million square feet have been terminated so far, claiming $500 million in lease savings.
The agencies that top the list of leases cut include the Internal Revenue Service with 61 spaces, 47 with the Social Security Administration, 44 with the Fish and Wildlife Service and 37 for the Geological Survey.
What office spaces in Iowa are on DOGE’s list of terminated leases?
Here are all the federal office leases targeted for termination in Iowa as well as their respective savings and annual lease cost, according to DOGE’s “Wall of Receipts” website.
- Federal Highway Administration office in Ames ($216,276 annual lease, $847,080 in total savings)
- Internal Revenue Service office in Cedar Rapids ($149,715 annual lease, $174,668 in total savings)
- Office of U.S. Attorneys in Sioux City ($217,139 annual lease, $126,664 in total savings)
- Food and Drug Administration office in Davenport ($12,312 annual lease, $36,936 in total savings)
- U.S. Department of Labor office in Davenport ($6,435 annual lease, $20,376 in total savings)
- Internal Revenue Service office in Sioux City ($104,186 annual lease, $17,364 in total savings)
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service office in Indianola ($32,003 annual lease, $0 in total savings)
The building with the most square footage is the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sioux City, with approximately 14,366 square feet, according to DOGE.
DOGE’s Wall of Receipts previous posts contained errors, misleading information on federal savings
The federal contracts cut that DOGE has posted online over the past two months have been subject to scrutiny due to accounting errors and claiming credit for canceling contracts that ended almost two decades ago.
A Wall of Receipts post last month on DOGE’s website listed the largest canceled federal contract was $8 billion for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. However, the most recent version of that contract showed it to be for $8 million, not $8 billion.
Musk has said DOGE will be “maximally transparent” with its work and acknowledged the group will make mistakes.
“Nobody’s going to bat 1,000,” Musk said last month alongside Trump in the Oval Office. “We will make mistakes, but we’ll act quickly to correct any mistakes.”
The New York Times and other publications have reported findings bringing this transparency into question, such as DOGE getting rid of the details on how it saved taxpayers billions by terminating more than 3,000 federal grants when it included these details in previous posts.
A White House official told the Times that removing the details was done for security purposes.
Cooper Worth is a service/trending reporter for the Des Moines Register. Reach him at cworth@gannett.com or follow him on X @CooperAWorth.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – Republican U.S. Representative Ashley Hinson officially launched her campaign for U.S. Senate at the Radisson Hotel in Cedar Rapids on Sunday.
“In the Senate, I will fight to make America look more like Iowa,” Hinson said. “Here, we know the difference between boys and girls. We know that families deserve to keep more of what they earn, and we know the people, not the government, always come first,” she said.
Right now, Ashley Hinson represents northeast Iowa’s 2nd District in Congress.
She’s running to replace Republican Senator Joni Ernst, who announced earlier this month she would not run for re-election.
“Ashley Hinson gives me hope. Someone that I know fights for me. Someone that has my back. And somebody that will have your back,” the Jones County Sheriff, Greg Graveler said about Hinson.
Hinson told Sunday’s crowd she wants to keep deporting illegal immigrants, cut taxes, and defend farmers in agriculture.
She also addressed Democrats who she said may consider her an extremist.
“If it’s extreme to want parents in charge of our kids’ education, if it’s extreme to want safe borders and safe streets, if it’s extreme to believe that there are only two genders, then they can go ahead and call me whatever they want,” Hinson said.
While Hinson will face plenty of competition for the Senate spot from other Republicans and Democrats, she said she’s confident in her campaign.
“We can only deliver on these critical wins, and make America safer and stronger for a generation to come if we win this seat. Or correction – when we win this seat,” Hinson said.
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A pair of lengthy streaks will go up against each other at Kinnick Stadium. Saturday, September 13 marks Week 3 of the college football season. Iowa and UMass are set to do battle at 7:30 p.m. EST.
The Hawkeyes return home with a 1-1 record. Their Week 1 victory over Albany wasn’t close, 34-7 in favor of the Hawkeyes. As for last week, Iowa wasn’t able to get past No. 16 Iowa State. Their three-point loss marked the second season in a row they lost to the Cyclones. Last year, they fell, 20-19. While they’ve only lost by four-combined points in the last two seasons, these are still key losses that don’t sit well with HC Kirk Ferentz.
Ferentz has been with Iowa since 1999. The 70-year-old head coach most recently won the Big Ten West in 2023 with his Hawkeyes finishing the 2024 season 8-4 (6-3). While Big 10 play has yet to begin, the legendary HC has a different streak that he’d love to keep alive.
Omar-Rashon Borja of the Mid-American Conference wrote, “The Hawkeyes have not lost to a MAC school since 2013, when a Jordan Lynch-led NIU Huskies squad scored 10-unanswered points with five minutes remaining to take a 30-27 win at Kinnick Stadium.”
He added that Iowa had also lost to Central Michigan the year prior, 32-31, marking back-to-back MAC losses for the Hawkeyes. Since falling to the Huskies by three-points in 2013, Iowa hasn’t looked back. They remain perfect against a conference that no Big 10 team has any right losing to in the first place.
As for the Minutemen, UMass has a streak of their own that they’ll bring to Kinnick Stadium, “The Minutemen have not defeated an Autonomous/Power conference team or an automatic qualifying team since beating Boston College in 1981,” Borja said.
Borja spoke highly about Iowa, but he knows that anything can happen in college football, “Sure, the conventional wisdom says the Minutemen stand no chance over the reliably consistent Iowa Hawkeyes, but Iowa has been the type of team to let an underdog hang around and stay in the game in the past due in the part to their style of play under long-time head coach Kirk Ferentz.”
Both streaks will go head-to-head in a Saturday night showdown that could see UMass shock the world. Iowa is far from a perfect team, but on paper, they should have no issue getting past 0-2 UMass. Borja predicted a 27-11 Iowa victory, you can find On SI’s score predictions here.
If UMass is able to get their biggest road victory in recent memory, it would snap their 44-year drought. Not only that, but it would snap a 10-year streak for Iowa that the Hawkeyes have no plans on dropping anytime soon.
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