President Donald Trump's administration has canceled leases for 24 federal offices in Arizona, according to a government data portal detailing the president's efforts to downsize the federal government.

That includes nine leases in Phoenix, two in Tucson, two in Flagstaff, and others scattered across the state.

Named for an Internet joke , Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, or “DOGE,” effort has cancelled government contracts and laid off thousands of workers as part of a wider effort to overhaul the federal bureaucracy. The president and his allies have touted it as a long-overdue measure to cut down on inefficiencies and fraud in government.

In total, the Trump administration says it has canceled more than 700 leases nationwide.

That's roughly one in 10 of the federal government's active commercial real estate leases, according to a review by the industry analytics firm CoStar.

DOGE chief Elon Musk has said the online data portal isn't perfect — on Tuesday his team deleted what were once listed as its five biggest "savings" — though DOGE's lease data matches up with other government records, according to CoStar's review.

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