FBI Headquarters Move To PG County Is Dead: Reports

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD — The multi-billion-dollar proposal to move the FBI headquarters to a site in Prince George's County appears to be dead, according to reports.

The Washington Post first reported that General Services Administration officials are likely to announce Tuesday morning that there will be no move from the crumbling J. Edgar Hoover Building in D.C., at least for now.

Officials were mulling three choices for a new FBI site, two of which were in PG County: Greenbelt and Landover. The third was in Springfield, Va.

It would have been a massive project that would have brought a staggering 11,000 jobs to the area that was picked.

However, there wasn't enough support in Congress to fund the $2.5 billion project, even though a billion dollars had been set aside already.

PG County officials were hopeful to score the project, as it would have been a tremendous economic boom to the region. PG County Executive Rushern Baker said earlier this year that they believed the new facility could do to PG County what the Pentagon did to Northern Virginia.

Both of Maryland's U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Steny Hoyer, as well as Rep. Anthony Brown (all D), issued a joint statement criticizing the Trump Administration's announcement.

"Canceling the current request for proposals for a fully consolidated FBI headquarters puts America’s national security at risk," the statement reads. "The Hoover Building is crumbling around the FBI. It is unfathomable that the Trump Administration would fail to move forward on a secure headquarters for the FBI workforce that serves on the front lines of our nation’s law enforcement and counter terrorism efforts."

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