A long list of Maryland leaders at the federal, state, and local level, many of them Black, stood in front of the entrance to the Greenbelt Metro Station on Friday and spoke into microphones as if there was a speaker connected to the Oval Office.
While the audience on hand may have been local media, the intended audience was the Biden administration.
Maryland’s elected leaders at all levels were blindsided by the updated scoring system put out by the General Services Administration as it gets ready to choose the site of a new FBI headquarters. Several of them took turns blasting those changes, while also focusing on the president’s pledge to make the federal government more equitable, which was issued through an executive order on Day One.
“The General Services Administration has said it would focus on access to transit, cost, and environment impact when selecting a new site,” said Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks. “Make no mistake, by any objective measure both of the sites in Prince George’s County are superior based on these GSA criteria.”
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