The Trump Administration announced a plan Tuesday for the FBI headquarters to move to a new location in downtown Washington D.C., instead of the planned relocation to Greenbelt.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen told The Baltimore Sun that his office was notified by the FBI Tuesday morning of a reprogramming request for the use of funds set aside for the planned Greenbelt FBI headquarters.
“We will fight this,” Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, said in an interview.
Trump plans to move the agency to the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, which houses the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, the gutted United States Agency for International Development and event spaces. The FBI is currently housed in the aging J. Edgar Hoover Building in downtown Washington.
In a release from the General Services Administration, the reason for the switch was the cost of creating a new suburban campus. The release adds that the Ronald Reagan Building complex “provides a world-class facility that supports the FBI’s critical mission and saves money for taxpayers.”
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