President Trump will keep the FBI in DC, but they won’t get a new, massive building. Instead, the FBI Director Kash Patel said they don’t need it. They will occupy part of an old Commerce building.
President Trump made the comments at the Department of Justice.
The federal government planned to build a new FBI headquarters complex on three 58, 61, and 80-acre sites in Virginia.
That is twice the size of the Pentagon building, which accounts for 29 acres plus a five-acre courtyard. The new FBI headquarters would have surpassed the Russian Kremlin, which contains government offices, the presidential residence, auditoriums, an arsenal, a museum, and several churches, all in slightly more than 66 acres.
The only reason to build it is to make it into more of a figurative monument to a police state and more big government. As for Biden claiming they needed more space, he was clueless.
The FBI failed on 9/11, Fort Hood, San Bernardino, but they managed to threaten parents who didn’t like DEI education. They called religious Catholics and Evangelicals “domestic threats.” In other words, they were directed to abuse their authority.
The FBI doesn’t need a building. Some in the FBI need re-direction and some education on integrity and who and what are genuine threats.
The GSA made the decision and it’s unclear if the President can change it. Hopefully he can!
Top Democrats representing Maryland in Congress have spent years advocating for the FBI’s relocation to Greenbelt. In a joint statement with Gov. Wes Moore, they plan to continue working to bring the headquarters to Maryland.
“He’s under some illusion that he can waltz into town and just change the law,” said Del. Jazz Lewis.
He’s just the president. What can he do when all the leftist judges interfere?
NEWS: President Donald Trump says he does not want the new FBI headquarters to be in Maryland, rather he wants it in DC.
“They were going to build it…in Maryland, a liberal state, but that has no bearing on what I’m about to say. But we’re going to stop it.” pic.twitter.com/LMn3HuhvoO
— Mikenzie Frost (@MikenzieFrost) March 14, 2025
Leftist Maryland politicians think the administration is trying to harm them.
Once again Donald Trump is trying to harm Marylanders.
Not on our watch. I have confidence in Team Maryland to fight back. There was a deal on the table, and Trump now is reneging. Shame. On. Him. https://t.co/5t6ij2pdyP
— Delegate Adrian Boafo (@AdrianBoafo) March 14, 2025
Since the democrat party died after the 2024 election they should consider renaming the remnants the Bureaucrat party because that is their only interest.
They should be in the field working on cases, not lounging around a plush headquarters where the only criminals to be found are the FBI leadership.
Hopefully the President can stop this but, if not, the new building should be shared by what’s left of actual government workers. Various agencies in the same building is indeed cost efficient. Also ALL FBI agents should be working in the field with less costly support employees in the office.
That’s a shame.
Sell the proposed property.
Any building housing FBI should have bars on the windows, cells, and guards at every door. They are criminals, not good guys working for American interests.
The FBI won’t need a big DC building if the Very Special Agents are spread around the country in the field offices to fight REAL crime.
I thought Patel had sent hundreds of FBI agents to the field offices in states…where they can actually do their job…not huddled in DC. What happened to that?
I think he’s still doing that
This makes no sense. The Headline says the FBI won’t get the building..then says Trump can’t stop it. Is the writer schizoid?
When oh when is Trump and the DOJ going to finally take a stand on the constitutionally specified and precedence-affirmed powers of the Executive Branch and stop asking the Judicial Branch “Mother May I.” If the three branches are separate and equal, why is Trump always deferring his own authority to the courts, because not even SCOTUS has power over enumerated constitutional authority. Trump needs the DOJ to make a declaration that the Executive Branch will be exercising its SEPARATE and EQUAL Constitutional authority, operating unhindered by the other two branches. The Executive Branch will no longer be hindered by excessive abuses of the courts using partisan lawfare to control the Executive Branch.
Any concern of lower courts going forward must petition SCOTUS directly, and SCOTUS will determine if a three-branch review is warranted. If so, a committee of two each from SCOTUS, the DOJ, and the Senate Judiciary Committee will meet to determine the correct course. No further lower court judgments against the Administrative a branch will be considered. Period. And no…he shouldn’t ask either branch…because his authority is equal to theirs.
The GSA cannot make law, so if this was their decision, the President can certainly change the decision. The GSA is an Executive agency, reporting to the President, with the administrator appointed by the President.
I ‘think’ it was done under appropriations by Congress.
All I will say is; Good.
as someone who was born and grew up in socialist state of maryland….i say, tear that building plan down mister gorbachev !
With the overdue DOGE cuts, the FBI doesn’t need a new campus. They should occupy the hundreds of thousands of square feet of freed up space in D.C. Those that aren’t transferred to Birmingham.
Something tells me they already have a building… and they will getting smaller, not bigger. Even drunken sailors would know they didn’t need another building.
Mediocrity and incompetence shouldn’t be rewarded.
Yea, nor rewarding criminal activity as well.
“Pork barrel, or simply pork, is a metaphor for the appropriation of government spending for localized projects secured solely or primarily to direct expenditures to a representative’s district. The usage originated in American English, and it indicates a negotiated way of political particularism.”
Ever wonder how the federal deficit got so high? He is a good example!
How much of the cost of that building is going into the pockets of the politicians from MD? Is that why that want it so badly?
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