Crypto News: Trump wants to move offices out of downtowns

In a move to reshape federal operations, President Donald Trump signed several executive orders Tuesday targeting how — and where — the government spends taxpayer dollars. Central to Trump's action is an order overturning directives from Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton to locate federal offices in downtown and historic districts, encouraging agencies instead to move to lower-cost areas.

The General Services Administration is tasked with steering this push, which dovetails with a broader federal cost-cutting campaign led by Elon Musk. New directives also require agencies to use commercially available products, and ease restrictions on working with private companies. Read more from Gregory Korte today on CityLab: Trump Signs Executive Orders on Federal Purchasing, Office Space

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Trump's border security spending stirs controversy in Texas and Arizona, where some residents lack basic resources (ProPublica)
From abrupt office relocations to hiring freezes, federal employees are grappling with uncertainty under Trump's cost-cutting agenda (Atlantic)
New York City's sanitation department debuts some modern, high-tech garbage bins in an effort to banish piles of trash bags from sidewalks (Gothamist)
As access to fentanyl grows harder and more expensive, rehabilitation facilities in Portland brace for the rise of a highly addictive substitute — methamphetamines (New York Times)
See how a Michigan town moved 9,100 books one by one to their new home (Associated Press)