White House chief of staff Mark Meadows calls it "a pressing need" but Republicans already unhappy with the overall cost are objecting.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday defended the inclusion of nearly $2 billion for the construction of a new FBI headquarters in the GOP proposal for more coronavirus relief, with White House chief of staff Mark Meadows calling it a “pressing need.”
The funding for a new FBI headquarters was added at the insistence of the administration, senators and aides said, causing some Republicans to publicly break with the president. A new FBI headquarters has been in the works for more than a decade and was slated to move from its current downtown location to a yet-to-be determined site in the Washington suburbs of Maryland or Virginia. Since his election, President Trump has taken an interest in preserving the current site, which is just a few blocks away from his property, Trump International Hotel.
Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., said, “My guess is that this is a personal issue for the president of the United States. I think it has as much to do with the fact that his hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue as it does with the FBI itself.”“So I’ve been encouraging them to build it,” he added.
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