{"id":44237,"date":"2025-07-01T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=44237"},"modified":"2025-07-01T22:40:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:40:39","slug":"fbi-determines-headquarters-will-remain-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=44237","title":{"rendered":"FBI determines headquarters will remain in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The FBI announced Tuesday it would not be moving its headquarters outside of D.C., abandoning plans hatched under the Biden\u2002<\/u><\/a>administration to move the bureau to the Maryland suburbs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bureau will leave the crumbling Hoover Building and instead occupy space at the Ronald Reagan Building \u2014 space that was recently occupied<\/u><\/a> by the U.S. Agency for International Development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a historic moment for the FBI,\u201d FBI Director Kash Patel\u2002<\/u><\/a>said in a statement announcing the move. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThrough our strong partnerships with members of Congress and GSA, we are ushering FBI Headquarters into a new era and providing our agents of justice a safer place to work,\u201d he continued, referring to the U.S. General Services Administration. \u201cMoving to the Ronald Reagan Building is the most cost effective and resource efficient way to carry out our mission to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The move earned swift condemnation from the Maryland delegation, noting the selection of a site<\/u><\/a> in Greenbelt, Md., after an independent review. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNot only was this decision final, the Congress appropriated funds specifically for the purpose of the new, consolidated campus to be built in Maryland,\u201d the Democratic members of the state\u2019s congressional delegation said in a statement. \u201cNow the Administration is attempting to redirect those funds \u2014 both undermining Congressional intent and dealing a blow to the men and women of the FBI \u2014 since we know that a headquarters located within the District would not satisfy their security needs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSimply moving down the street would ignore the real threats the Bureau faces and further jeopardize the safety of those protecting our communities,\u201d the delegation continued. \u201cThat\u2019s why we will be fighting back against this proposal with every tool we have.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Virginia lawmakers, however, had expressed frustration with the site selection process, asking to pause the move<\/u><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Office of Inspector General agreed to ignite a review of the process after former FBI Director Christopher Wray\u2002<\/u><\/a>sent a letter to FBI staff citing \u201cconcerns about fairness and transparency in the process\u201d as well as the General Services Administration\u2019s \u201cfailure to adhere to its own site selection plan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FBI\u2019s current headquarters are covered with netting to prevent any falling pieces of its facade from hitting passersby. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFBI\u2019s existing headquarters at the Hoover building is a great example of a government building that has accumulated years of deferred maintenance, suffering from an aging water system to concrete falling off the structure,\u201d GSA acting Administrator Stephen Ehikian said in a release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The FBI announced Tuesday it would not be moving its headquarters outside of D.C., abandoning plans hatched under the Biden\u2002administration to move the bureau to the Maryland suburbs.  The bureau will leave the crumbling Hoover Building and instead occupy space at the Ronald Reagan Building \u2014 space that was recently occupied by the U.S. Agency for International Development.  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":44238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[29482,419,4342],"class_list":["post-44237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-d-c-2","tag-fbi","tag-headquarters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44239,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44237\/revisions\/44239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}