Senate panel approves step on new FBI headquarters plan
Source: Roll Call
Posted October 29, 2025 at 5:55pm
A Republican-led Senate committee took a key step Wednesday to allow the Trump administration to move the FBI headquarters to the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in downtown Washington instead of a previously selected location in Maryland. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee considered three resolutions related to General Services Administration plans to spend roughly $1.5 billion to repair and alter the Reagan Building on Pennsylvania Avenue.
The committee, in a 10-9 party-line vote on a panel resolution, approved a prospectus on a $1.4 billion project to repair and alter the building to serve as the new FBI headquarters. The plan said the GSA wants to use about $844 million of previously appropriated funds for the headquarters project, and there would be an additional $555 million from the FBI for the effort.
The project for a new headquarters location downtown would consolidate about 6,000 FBI headquarters personnel who are at the deteriorating J. Edgar Hoover Building and at other locations in the Washington region, according to the document. The Senate committee also voted to approve resolutions related to a $95 million upgrade for fire alarms and other building safety and $36 million in repairs to wall systems and an atrium skylight at the Reagan Building.
The Senate action is the latest in a yearslong saga over where to put the new FBI headquarters. The GSA, after a lengthy process, in 2023 picked Maryland as the home over Virginia. But in July, the Trump administration announced the Reagan complex had been selected instead, and a cohort of Maryland members of Congress said they would fight back against the proposal.
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