President Obama’s 2016 budget request includes $2.2 billion for the General Services Administration \u2014 about $900 million of that for renovations and the rest for new construction projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The agency would spend $380 million to continue the construction of the new Department of Homeland Security headquarters in Southeast Washington, D.C., which has stalled in recent years due to a lack of sufficient funding. The new funds would go toward completing perimeter security, an access road and a new road interchange near the facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The funding would also finish the renovations of the DHS Secretary’s building as well as several administrative buildings and annexes, according to GSA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GSA would also receive $227 million to help fund the first phase of the federal civilian cyber campus \u2014 made up of civilian employees focused on cyber activities<\/span>. The agency would also get $85 million to build a new land port of entry in Columbus, New Mexico and $105 million for a land port of entry in Alexandria Bay, New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n President Obama also proposes in the budget that GSA be given funds on a two-year cycle, for both fiscal 2016 and 2017, in order to ensure greater stability in construction projects and more certainty in the budgeting process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n GSA Administrator Dan Tangherlini said in a statement that taxpayers would benefit by having cost and energy-efficient buildings as well as modern and security border stations and ports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Advanced funding for the federal buildings program will give GSA the ability to plan long-term, providing certainty to communities across the country with pending investment needs,” Tangherlini said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n The budget request also includes funding for disposing federal facilities at NASA and the Agriculture Department’s Forest Service, as well as $60 million to continue renovations at the Agriculture Department’s headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The budget also requests $1.5 billion for construction projects at the Veterans Affairs Department \u2013 a $500 million increase over 2015 levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The administration wants to modernize federal buildings, asking for billions for new construction and renovations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":60045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":65,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[65,15],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2671],"class_list":["post-19365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-budget","category-management"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"6VOXYWOFRZFV7J3SIVHKPNEKXQ","arc_canonical_url":"\/management\/budget\/2015\/02\/03\/obama-budget-boosts-federal-construction-projects\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n