Trump administration plans to keep FBI headquarters in DC
Source: WTOP
Trump administration plans to keep FBI headquarters in DC
Thomas Robertson trobertson@wtop.com
July 1, 2025, 4:24 PM
The FBI has selected its new headquarters that's more across the street than across state lines to Greenbelt, Maryland, President Donald Trump's administration announced Tuesday.
The bureau and General Services Administration selected the Ronald Reagan Building as the new location for the FBI, just blocks away from the bureau's current headquarters, the J. Edgar Hoover Building. In a news release, the bureau said the new location will provide a world-class facility while saving taxpayers money.
"FBI's existing headquarters at the Hoover building is a great example of a government building that has accumulated years of deferred maintenance, suffering from an aging water system to concrete falling off the structure," GSA Acting Administrator Stephen Ehikian said.
According to the administration's public buildings service commissioner, Michael Peters, the Hoover building had racked up $300 million in deferred maintenance costs. New construction of an FBI headquarters would have cost "billions of dollars," Peters said.
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Thomas Robertson
Thomas Robertson is an Associate Producer and Web Writer/Editor at WTOP. After graduating in 2019 from James Madison University, Thomas moved away from Virginia for the first time in his life to cover the local government beat for a small daily newspaper in Zanesville, Ohio.
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