The fight to build a new FBI headquarters outside D.C. isn’t over, according to one Maryland legislator who is working on a bill to move the project forward.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said he’s now asking the FBI and the General Services Administration to once again consider building a new campus outside the District.
The effort to move the FBI headquarters began after a 2011 Government Accountability Office report deemed the current building on Pennsylvania Avenue “functionally obsolete” and not up to security standards. The $2.5 billion relocation project had inched along over the years and had been narrowed down to two possible locations in Prince George’s County, Maryland, and a third in Fairfax County, Virginia.
But, instead of moving forward with selecting a new campus, the Trump administration decided modernizing the current building would be the best option.
The Trump administration’s decision drew criticism from congressional Democrats, including Van Hollen.
“The Trump administration came in, scrapped all the plans that had been in place for years, totally reversed course and Congress, on a bipartisan base, has been very troubled,” added Van Hollen.
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