News Briefs: If Feds Sell CMS Headquarters, Where Will Diminished Workforce Go?
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Mar 06, 2025
As the Trump administration continues to downsize the federal government, the General Services Administration (GSA) this week posted a list of 440 “non-core properties” it intended to sell, including the four buildings that serves as CMS headquarters, then promptly took the list down. Located in Woodlawn, Maryland, a suburb of western Baltimore County, the CMS complex was completed in 1995. Sources say it’s hard to imagine how CMS can adequately operate Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act marketplace with limited operational capacity, even with a diminished workforce. Options include relocating employees to limited space within the HHS headquarters at the Humbert Humphrey Building in Washington, D.C., or to one of CMS’s 10 regional offices, although neither is likely to save much money and would, as one anonymous source put it, “likely disaffect long-serving staff (though that might be part of the plan).” Local news organization WBALTV.com posted a list of 83 federal properties for sale in Maryland. A previously posted list of non-core properties on March 5 was missing from the GSA website.
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