The Senate Appropriations Committee removed Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s amendment Thursday that would’ve kept dollars reserved for the FBI headquarters’ move to Greenbelt instead of

The federal government has been debating the best location for a new FBI headquarters for well over a decade while its current office space in the J. Edgar Hoover Building continues to deteriorate.

A Senate committee advanced the Trump administration’s plan to keep the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., scrapping a Maryland senator’s amendment that would have ensured the agency relocated to Greenbelt.

Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee endorsed the FBI’s plan spend money on a downtown D.C. headquarters rather than a suburban Maryland campus.

The Senate Appropriations Committee struck an amendment to an appropriations bill that would have blocked funding for a plan by the Trump administration to relocate the FBI headquarters to a new site in D.

A key Senate committee on Thursday backed the Trump administration's bid to shift money previously set aside for a new FBI headquarters campus in the D.C. suburbs to instead move the agency to the Reagan Building.

Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed Sen. Van Hollen’s amendment to stop the Trump administration from using the funds for anything other than relocating the FBI headquarters to Greenbelt, Maryland — a site chosen by the General Services Administration back in 2023.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) told his colleagues on the Appropriations Committee that they should reject the administration’s request “to snatch” money Congress already designated for a different project.