Trump’s Federal Building Selloff Faces $26 Billion Repair Hole

The US government’s landlord agency has tallied more than $25.8 billion in maintenance needs for federal buildings, a state of decrepitude that is undercutting President Donald Trump’s bid to sell off government property.

The backlog includes at least 62 buildings that need repairs of $100 million or more. And efforts to chip away at the list of repairs, the head of the General Services Administration says, are being held up by rules that require congressional signoff on some of the work.

Congress must authorize any repair project costing about $4 million or more – a limit known as the prospectus ...