The plan to move the FBI’s headquarters from downtown D.C. to Greenbelt, Maryland, appears to be dead.
“We’re going to stop it — not going to let that happen,” President Donald Trumpsaid at a press conference Friday at the Department of Justice
“We’re going to build another big FBI building right where it is, which would have been the right place because the FBI and the DOJ have to be near each other,” he said. “We’re going to get a great building built. It’s going to be a magnificent building.”
However, Trump later opened the door to another route. He said that FBI Director Kash Patel told him the agency doesn’t “need that kind of room,” and would opt to take a Department of Commerce building that is a quarter of the size of its Pennsylvania Avenue headquarters. The administration could then sell its J. Edgar Hoover building.
The Hoover building was one of the 443 “non-core” properties the General Services Administration said it was considering for disposal earlier this month before it took the list down less than 24 hours later.
Trump said that having the headquarters in D.C. would be a benefit to the capital “if for no other reason” than public safety in the nation’s capital.
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