The Senate Appropriations Committee voted on Thursday to preserve $1.4 billion in funds for use at the Greenbelt site for the new FBI headquarters, disrupting President Donald Trump’s administration’s plans to use the funds to move the headquarters to downtown Washington, D.C.
The measure passed 15-14. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican, joined her Democratic colleagues in supporting the amendment, which Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen proposed.
Van Hollen had proposed the amendment to the Commerce, Justice, and Science appropriations bill to prevent Trump’s administration from utilizing the money to move FBI headquarters to the Ronald Reagan Building in downtown Washington, D.C. Roughly $500 million of the funding had been set aside by the Senate Appropriations Committee over a period of years to be used at the selected site for the new FBI headquarters.
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