Judge blocks Trump administration from moving FBI headquarters to DC office building
Summary
A U.S. judge has stopped President Donald Trump’s administration from moving the FBI headquarters to a federal office building in Washington, D.C. The judge ruled the administration acted illegally by canceling a previously approved plan to build a new FBI headquarters in Greenbelt, Maryland.Key Facts
- The original plan approved during President Biden’s administration was to build a new FBI headquarters in Greenbelt, Maryland.
- President Trump’s appointees tried to change this plan and instead move the FBI to the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C.
- U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang blocked the move, saying the administration did not follow the law.
- The lawsuit was filed by the state of Maryland and Prince George’s County.
- Maryland officials had invested over a decade of work and pledged hundreds of millions of dollars for the Greenbelt site.
- The current FBI headquarters is the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C., which opened in 1975 and requires repairs.
- Maryland Governor Wes Moore supports building the new headquarters in Prince George’s County, Maryland.
- The judge’s ruling clears the way to continue with the Maryland plan.
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