FBI Director Kash Patel says the agency is leaving its DC HQ [View all]
Source: WTOP
FBI Director Kash Patel says the agency is leaving its DC HQ
Grace Newton grace.newton@wtop.com
May 16, 2025, 11:31 AM
The FBI Headquarters is leaving the J. Edgar Hoover Building on Pennsylvania Avenue in D.C., according to the bureau's director, Kash Patel.
Patel, who made the announcement in a short clip Friday on Fox's Mornings with Maria, called the building "unsafe for our workforce." ... The move would transfer 1,500 employees to various locations across the country.
"The FBI has 38,000 when we're fully manned, which we're not. In the national capital region, in the 50 mile radius around Washington D.C., there were 11,000 FBI employees. That's like a third of the workforce. A third of the crime doesn't happen here, so we're taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out," Patel told Fox.
Patel didn't say where the new headquarters may be located. ... The FBI announced in November a move to Greenbelt, Maryland, after a 15-year debate, but President Donald Trump said earlier this year that he planned to halt that relocation.
Grace Newton
Grace Newton is an Associate Producer at WTOP. She also works as an associate producer for NPR Newscast. Grace was born and raised in North Carolina but has lived in D.C. since 2018. Grace graduated from American University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and minor in art history in 2022.
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Insiders have already bought up the land where the new headquarters will be located.
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