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The fiscal 2024 funding package unveiled early Thursday would funnel $200 million toward the project to build a new FBI headquarters, a plan some House Republicans criticized and previously said should not get more funding. The General Services Administration last year picked Maryland as the home of the new FBI headquarters over Virginia, after a lengthy and high-profile competition over where the new facility would be built. Conservatives raised questions about that selection process and in general have expressed hostility toward the FBI this session, citing in part how the agency has handled politically sensitive investigations. The more than $1.2...

A decision over the future FBI headquarters could be announced in coming weeks, the News4 I-Team has learned, capping off years of discussions over the fate of the dilapidated J. Edgar Hoover building in downtown D.C. A three-member voting panel, comprised of two General Services Administration employees and one FBI employee whose identities are secret, are evaluating three suburban sites: Greenbelt and Landover in Maryland, and Springfield, Virginia

A DC youtuber's capturing, supposedly, of extended series of loud explosions at FIB headquarters, with the top floor's lights on. There are no first responders on the scene, and seemingly no other news about this.

Democratic congressman says new report shows ‘conspiracy theories’ are true. President Donald Trump was more intimately involved in the debate over relocating the FBI headquarters than Congress was told, a new inspector general report finds. Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, a Democrat representing parts of Northern Virginia, said the report he requested from the General Services Administration IG confirmed his suspicions that the president was involved in the decision to scrap plans to vacate the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building on Pennsylvania Avenue, and move the agency to a campus location in either the Maryland or Virginia suburbs. “When we began...

The Trump administration will ask Congress for $2.2 billion to build a new FBI headquarters this year, a U.S. Department of Justice official said Monday. If approved, the money will be added to a $3.3 billion plan to tear down the existing FBI building in D.C. and replace it with a more modern facility in the same location. The cost of relocating FBI workers to other government buildings during the construction process will be included in the overall funding. It is not immediately clear where the FBI employees will be relocated. The money is not part of the Justice Department’s...