A group of Virginia lawmakers is urging the Biden Administration to delay all work on a new FBI headquarters pending the completion of an investigation into why the General Services Administration chose Greenbelt over Springfield as the site for the FBI’s sprawling new home.
Eleven members of the state’s congressional delegation sent a letter Friday to Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young asking the White House to “pause efforts to advance the headquarters process” while an investigation by the GSA’s acting inspector general runs its course. In the letter, they cited FBI Director Christopher Wray’s “strenuous objections” to the site selection process as a key reason for putting the project on hold.
“It is vital that both the GSA and the FBI fully cooperate and provide relevant information to the Inspector General’s review and that they allow time and space for investigatory efforts to reach a thorough conclusion,” the lawmakers wrote.
At the urging of Virginia officials, GSA’s acting inspector general, Robert Erickson, agreed last week to launch an investigation into the site selection process that landed the new FBI headquarters on a 62-acre parcel in Greenbelt, near the Greenbelt Metro station. A day later, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., requested information and testimony on the selection process for their own inquiry.
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