Bureau of Reclamation, Durango, Colo. (8,900 square feet)
Wahidah stands on her porch with her friends in Timbulsloko, Central Java, Indonesia, Sunday, July 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)Sitting on the porch of house she was born in, Wahidah and her friends chat as they avoid the heat of the sun.
She recalls how when she was little she would see buffalo roam through the village’s fields where rice, corn and chilis would grow. Some neighbors kept fish ponds filled with catfish they could sell at the market or eat themselves.“Everything we needed was here,” she says.She remembers how the water began to rise. The fields and trees all died from the salt water. All the buffalo were sold as there began to be no land to safely keep them. Even the fish ponds failed, the water getting so high the fish could jump over the netted walls. Eventually the graveyard became flooded, with the dead being buried further away.
“It’s just like the ocean here now,” she says.These days, a man comes on a boat during the week to sell them the things they used to be able to grow or raise for themselves. Houses have collapsed around them.
Wahidah says she knows about 40 people who have left, moving to other parts of Java that haven’t permanently flooded yet.
“I think the younger generation should move. If they have money they should buy land. But I don’t have money right now, so I stay,” she says.That did not stall DOGE’s fire sale. In the presentation viewed by the AP, Ehikian said the agency has canceled more than 680 leases, listed or sold at least 32 properties worth $185 million and cut more than $50 billion in contracts.
Hollander has mostly operated behind the scenes. She rarely appears in Zoom meetings, according to employees. Documents obtained by the AP show spreadsheets she creates are stripped of her name and replaced with a more generic “GSA leadership.”The AP also obtained copies of some event invitations on Hollander’s calendar. They showed Hollander had several meetings with commercial real estate and services firms, including a brokerage firm and a real estate consulting company that helps companies economize their space. She also took meetings with a consortium of Washington technology companies.
Hollander did not respond to a request for comment sent over LinkedIn or through a GSA spokesperson.It’s not the first time that Hollander has led a cost-cutting campaign for Musk. A