FBI Director Kash Patel announced on Friday that the FBI is permanently closing its iconic J. Edgar Hoover Building, a headquarters since 1975, and relocating to the Reagan Building, formerly home to the U.S. Agency for International Development, in a cost-saving maneuver projected to save billions.
For hardworking taxpayers, this is a rare win against the bloated budgets that often define government projects. The alternative—restoring the aging Hoover Building—would have slapped them with a bill of hundreds of millions, while a scrapped plan for a new headquarters in Greenbelt, Maryland, carried a staggering $5 billion price tag with a completion date far off in 2035.
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