Trump Is Considering Selling Most of the Federal Government’s Real Estate
WSJ What’s News
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 21 January 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:33.0 | More than a dozen states sue to stop President Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship. |
| 0:39.6 | Plus, the Trump administration considers selling off most of the real estate held by the federal government. |
| 0:45.0 | A lot of these buildings are sitting almost empty right now in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:49.5 | And it's a problem that we're seeing nationwide. |
| 0:52.2 | And what the Los Angeles wildfires mean for the workers that make Hollywood magic. |
| 0:57.2 | It's Tuesday, January 21st. |
| 0:59.5 | I'm Alex Osala for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 1:01.8 | This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that move the world today. |
| 1:10.0 | President Donald Trump has met with Republican leaders. According to people briefed on the |
| 1:14.4 | plans, the meeting was intended to focus on how to implement Trump's agenda in Congress. With a |
| 1:19.3 | narrow majority in Congress, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune have |
| 1:23.9 | little room for error as they try to push through the president's sweeping plans for the tax code and the border. In a separate event today, three of the world's most prominent |
| 1:31.9 | tech companies unveiled their AI infrastructure plans at the White House. Open AI, SoftBank, |
| 1:37.2 | and Oracle promised to pour as much as half a trillion dollars into building artificial |
| 1:41.1 | intelligence infrastructure in the U.S. It's the latest high-profile project timed with the start of the Trump administration. |
| 1:47.8 | The companies are committing $100 billion to a joint venture called Stargate, |
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