Posted on 07/01/2025 5:20:56 PM PDT by re_tail20
The Trump administration announced Tuesday that despite much speculation, FBI headquarters will remain in the nation's capital, the Washington Post reported.
President Donald Trump had long opposed moving the FBI out of Washington, D.C., saying the FBI and the DOJ should be near each other. While the FBI will move out of the aging J. Edgar Hoover Building, it won't relocate to a Maryland suburb, as was proposed earlier this year.
The FBI will now head three blocks west of its current location into the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center.
The precise timing of the move and how the logistics of transferring classified bureau investigations was not revealed in the initial report. The Trump administration's official announcement puts to an end the lobbying efforts of cities in Virginia and Maryland that had hoped to host the FBI.
During the Biden administration, the General Services Administration had chosen Greenbelt, Maryland, as the next location for the FBI's headquarters. Other locations under consideration were Landover, Maryland, and Springfield, Virginia.
As far back as his first term, Trump had opposed moving the main office into one of the adjacent states.
"They were going to build an FBI headquarters three hours away in Maryland, a liberal state," Trump said in March. "But that has no bearing on what I'm about to say. We're going to stop it. I'm not going to let that happen."
In May, FBI Director Kash Patel announced the bureau will move about 1,500 employees to other locations around the U.S.
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I had heard that they were considering moving into the Herbert Hoover Commerce Building - but this will do just as well.
Thought I heard an hour or 2 ago that they’re moving into the vacated USAID building
According to the New York Times, the Ronald Reagan Building was previously the headquarters for USAID. Glad to see it’s being put to some great use again, and much needed use too.
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This is good news. I’m just back from my third trip to DC. Everyone knows about the beautiful classic buildings, but what a lot of people don’t realize is that the city has tons of massive buildings built in the Brutalist style in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. The entire huge State Department campus should have a tactical nuke applied to it.
The J Edgar Hoover building is a prime case in point. Just off Pennsylvania Avenue, almost literally a stone’s throw from Ford’s Theater, Peterson House where Lincoln died, and glorious St Patrick’s church, where I attended Sunday massive before touring the others.
The Hoover Bldg is an affront to architecture. Ugly as sin and the sidewalks around it absolutely sterile and lifeless. If you wanted to design what a police state headquarters would look like, the Hoover Bldg would be it. I honestly hope they dynamite that eyesore
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The headquarters can stay in DC, while the troublemakers get shipped off to the worst stations the FBI has.
“The headquarters can stay in DC, while the troublemakers get shipped off to the worst stations the FBI has.”
I hear there’s a LOT of crime in Adak, Alaska.
They should also have a retirement home wing at Gitmo where FBI not executed for their crimes, can live out their sentences.
Ship them all off to Death Valley.
Make them pay double for ICE Water and AC.
Headquarters should be in quonset huts in Mojave desert, with backup in Kodiak Alaska.
Not with the the two fanboy pussies running the FBI.
Wes Moore, the colossal failure of a Maryland Governor has lost another one.
Well, at lease he can count on $1.6 billion in new taxes that went live today.
Their rich tradition clearly indicates that they should be moved to the dustbin of history.
Maybe some of the FBI Agents can find something useful to do at “Alligator Alley”!
Wonderful idea!
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