Senate committee votes to block Trump FBI headquarters move
Source: The Hill
07/10/25 12:11 PM ET
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved an amendment to the annual Justice Department funding bill aimed at blocking the Trump administration from keeping the FBI’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. The committee voted 15-14 to adopt language that seeks to block funding from being used to relocate the headquarters from its current J. Edgar Hoover Building site to any location other than the Greenbelt, Md., site selected by the General Services Administration in 2023.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) bucked party lines to join Democrats in backing the proposal. “My understanding is that this has been a decision that was made just very recently,” Murkowski said ahead of the vote. “So I, for one, would like to know that this analysis has actually been going on for more than just a couple months, that there’s actually been that effort to ensure that we’re going to move forward.”
Republicans had sought to have the amendment withdrawn to allow members to receive more information from the FBI regarding the relocation plans, but Sen. Chris Van Hollen (Md.), the senior appropriator who offered the proposal, declined. Van Hollen said the previous decision to bring the FBI headquarters to Maryland was the result of a lengthy, competitive process to replace the current crumbling structure in D.C., accusing the Trump administration of not performing a sufficient analysis before changing the plan.
“A few weeks ago, the administration just announced that it wanted to snatch the $555 million that had been set aside for down payment on that selected site and use it instead to move the FBI into the Ronald Reagan Building,” he said at the top of the markup session Thursday. “No analysis done with respect to security requirements, no analysis done with respect to FBI mission requirements, no review of the underlying statute as to the purpose of the Ronald Reagan Building, no analysis of what they would do with current tenants in that building.” The Hill has reached out to the FBI for comment.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5394523-senate-committee-trump-fbi-headquarters-amendment/
This is surprising.
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