Here’s 1 More Reason Why You Shouldn’t Trust DOGE’s ‘Wall Of Receipts’

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The Buffalo building, known as the Niagara Center, is owned by Easterly Government Properties, a Washington, D.C.-based real estate investment firm. Easterly’s CEO, Darrell Crate, is a former chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party. He said in a statement earlier this month that he was looking forward to helping DOGE find costs to cut, including by modifying the GSA’s lease structure.

Asked if the NLRB was still being moved into a smaller office, the spokesperson for the company said it couldn’t “share specifics on an active procurement process.”

“Easterly is excited to continue working alongside DOGE to deliver cost effective real estate solutions for the federal government,” a spokesperson said in an email. “With the Trump Administration’s return-to-office mandate, we anticipate our facility will serve as a helpful solution for the government as demand for office space in Western New York continues to grow.”

Mike Bilik, executive vice president for the National Labor Relations Board Union, which represents agency employees, said the board would not be able to fulfill its mission without a space to work in Buffalo.

He said it would prevent the agency from holding in-person trials and leave staff without a place to process and store ballots from in-person and mail-in union elections. (Democrats have tried for years to enable electronic elections at the NLRB, but congressional Republicans have blocked them from doing so.)

Perhaps the biggest problem, Bilik said, would be leaving workers without a place to walk in and assert their rights under the law.

“It would just cause chaos,” he said.