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Fuck, maybe he can find a way to MAKE MONEY OFF IT. The FBI building needs major renovations or have it razed it and rebuild in VA. Trump has intervened in those renovations and thwarted plans to move it with the GSA. THIS IS ILLEGAL AS SHIT.
Trump intervenes in FBI headquarters project
By Jonathan O'Connell
July 30, 2018 at 4:34 PM
A net is in place to collect falling pieces from the exterior of the J. Edgar Hoover Building. The FBI has been seeking a secure new headquarters for more than a decade. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
President Trump has become personally involved in plotting a new FBI headquarters in downtown Washington, an interest that for now has left the project in limbo and the agency stranded in a building that no longer suits its needs, according to officials and people familiar with the administration’s deliberations.
For years, FBI officials have raised alarms that decrepit conditions at its current headquarters, the J. Edgar Hoover Building, constitute serious security concerns. A year ago, federal officials had finally decided on three finalist locations in Maryland and Virginia, and Congress appropriated $913 million toward a project expected to cost more than $3 billion.
Six months after Trump entered the White House, his administration abandoned the plan, and it proposed in February that the government build a smaller headquarters to replace the Hoover building in downtown D.C. and move 2,300 other FBI staffers out of the Washington area altogether, to Alabama, Idaho and West Virginia. At the time, the decision baffled real estate experts and some members of Congress.
Those decisions, by the General Services Administration and the FBI, were made after Trump took a personal interest in the project, according to two people, who spoke Monday on the condition of anonymity because the discussions were meant to be private. One of them said Trump has frequently raised the issue of the FBI building and his desire for it to be torn down with appropriators. The website Axios reported Sunday that Trump was obsessed with the project and was “dead opposed” to plans to move it out of D.C....
https://www-washingtonpost-com.cdn.a...ers-project%2F
Trump intervenes in FBI headquarters project
By Jonathan O'Connell
July 30, 2018 at 4:34 PM
A net is in place to collect falling pieces from the exterior of the J. Edgar Hoover Building. The FBI has been seeking a secure new headquarters for more than a decade. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
President Trump has become personally involved in plotting a new FBI headquarters in downtown Washington, an interest that for now has left the project in limbo and the agency stranded in a building that no longer suits its needs, according to officials and people familiar with the administration’s deliberations.
For years, FBI officials have raised alarms that decrepit conditions at its current headquarters, the J. Edgar Hoover Building, constitute serious security concerns. A year ago, federal officials had finally decided on three finalist locations in Maryland and Virginia, and Congress appropriated $913 million toward a project expected to cost more than $3 billion.
Six months after Trump entered the White House, his administration abandoned the plan, and it proposed in February that the government build a smaller headquarters to replace the Hoover building in downtown D.C. and move 2,300 other FBI staffers out of the Washington area altogether, to Alabama, Idaho and West Virginia. At the time, the decision baffled real estate experts and some members of Congress.
Those decisions, by the General Services Administration and the FBI, were made after Trump took a personal interest in the project, according to two people, who spoke Monday on the condition of anonymity because the discussions were meant to be private. One of them said Trump has frequently raised the issue of the FBI building and his desire for it to be torn down with appropriators. The website Axios reported Sunday that Trump was obsessed with the project and was “dead opposed” to plans to move it out of D.C....
https://www-washingtonpost-com.cdn.a...ers-project%2F
