Senate Committee Requires New FBI Headquarters To Be Built In Maryland

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday passed a resolution that requires the new FBI headquarters to be constructed in Greenbelt, Maryland, by blocking funding for any other site.

The resolution comes after the Trump administration announced the new headquarters would remain in Washington, D.C., but would move from the J. Edgar Hoover building to the Ronald Reagan Building, which also houses the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski joined Democrats in blocking the move in a 15-14 split predominantly along party lines. The resolution blocks federal funding for the new headquarters if it is built anywhere other than the Greenbelt, Maryland, location that was selected by the General Services Administration in 2023.

“My understanding is that this has been a decision that was made just very recently,” Murkowski said, per The Hill. “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.”

The Trump administration argued last month that the D.C. location would have saved American taxpayers billions of dollars by choosing an existing federal building, rather than building a suburban campus that would have taken years to complete.

The move was proposed because of structural issues that have plagued the current building for the last 20 years. The FBI moved into the Hoover building in 1975.

The FBI has not yet commented on the recent vote.