Federal Bureau of Investigation and General Services Administration officials faced sharp questioning on Capitol Hill as they defended a Trump administration proposal to replace the FBI’s aging downtown Washington, D.C., headquarters with a new building at the same spot.
Testifying at a Feb. 28 Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing, GSA public buildings Commissioner Daniel Mathews said the lack of full funding was one reason for the sudden 2017 cancellation of a $1.4-billion plan to move the FBI’s main building to a suburban Maryland or Virginia campus. He said uncertainties about the planned transfer of the J. Edgar Hoover Building site to the District of Columbia for future development “greatly complicated and increased the risk of the procurement.”