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As the Trump administration advances a plan to move the FBI’s headquarters to another building in D.C., the state and county where the agency had been slated to move are fighting back.
Maryland and Prince George’s County have filed a lawsuit against the administration, alleging that it is undertaking illegal actions in backing out of the 2023 decision to build a new headquarters in Greenbelt, elected officials announced Thursday.
Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown announced the lawsuit at a press conference Thursday at the Wayne K. Curry County Administration Building. He was joined by Gov. Wes Moore and Prince George’s County Executive Aisha Braveboy, as well as Maryland congressional representatives.
“What we’re really seeing is an administration that doesn’t like the decision Congress made, so they’re trying to undo it without going back to Congress,” Brown said. “That violates federal law. It violates congressional directives. It harms Marylanders who were promised jobs and opportunities.”
Brown said the lawsuit alleges the administration is attempting to unlawfully transfer more than $1B that was already designated for the Greenbelt headquarters, that it violated explicit congressional directives and ignored federal requirements to consult with state and local governments, and that it “acted arbitrarily and capriciously by abandoning years of careful planning without explanation or justification.”
“We won the project fairly, and we will not let this administration steal jobs and opportunities from Prince George’s County and Maryland,” he said.
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