The bureau announced on Tuesday that the Federal Investigation of Investigation selected a new headquarters building in Washington, DC, after almost two decades of unsuccessful efforts, the bureau announced on Tuesday.
FBI headquarters since 1975 J. Edgar Hoover Building has been downtown at DC, but structural problems have stricken the building for the last 20 years, causing redevelopment and rehabilitation projects to be successfully solved on Thursday.
FBI director Kash Patel said, “This is a historic moment for the FBI.” statementHe is “starting the FBI headquarters in a new era and providing our agents of justice to work.”
Bureau and US General Services Administration selected Ronald Reagan Building, away from Hoover Building, as a new place. It was home to the American agency for international development till this year, when the Trump administration consolidated the USAID to the state department and Customs and border security allowed To handle the lease of the building.
Patel continued, “Going to Ronald Reagan Building is the most cost -effective and resource efficient way to fulfill our mission to protect American people and maintain the constitution.”
It is not clear that the FBI will start its infection out of the huver building.
In a March 1 speech in the Department of Justice, President Trump said that his administration is “going to construct another big FBI building, where it will be the right place, as the FBI and DOJ will have to have each other.”
Mr. Trump said, “He was going to build an FBI headquarters at a distance of three hours in Maryland in a liberal state,” Mr. Trump said, “The state’s political leadership had” no impact “on his decision to cancel the previous Biden administration plan to move the headquarters of the state to Maryland.”
During his first term, Mr. Trump abandoned the plan to move the FBI to one of the three places in Maryland or Virginia, instead to change the Hoover Building proposal to a small headquarters in Washington.
Under Biden Administration in 2023, GSA Greenbelt chosen a site in MarylandTo serve as a new place for the FBI headquarters. The decision came after a 15 -year debate whether the headquarters should be transferred to Maryland or Virginia.
The Democratic members of the Congress from Maryland exploded the decision to scrap the schemes for a New Maryland headquarters, saying the Congress “especially contained funds for the purpose of the new, integrated campus to be built in Maryland.”
MPs of MPs of Maryland Said in a joint statement“That’s why we are fighting back against this proposal, with every equipment near us.”
In May, Patel told the Congress that his target is about 10% of the Bureau’s Washington workforce – about 1,500 people – are away from the DC area and re -prepare them across the country, including a large number of personnel in the FBI facility in Huntsville, Alabama.
In an interview with Fox News the same month, Patel called Hoover Building “unsafe for our workforce”.
