{"id":29533,"date":"2026-01-09T05:38:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=29533"},"modified":"2026-01-09T05:38:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:38:53","slug":"patel-fbi-to-permanently-close-hoover-building-as-hq-plans-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=29533","title":{"rendered":"Patel: FBI To Permanently Close Hoover Building As HQ Plans Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FBI Director Kash Patel said Friday that the bureau\u2019s J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C., will be shut down permanently, reversing earlier plans to relocate the agency\u2019s headquarters to Maryland. Instead, FBI employees will move into the Ronald Reagan Building, which previously housed the U.S. Agency for International Development before it was dismantled by the Trump administration earlier this year, The New York Post\u00a0reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAfter more than 20 years of failed attempts, we finalized a plan to permanently close the FBI\u2019s Hoover headquarters and move the workforce into a safe, modern facility,\u201d Patel wrote in a post on the social platform X.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorking directly with President Trump and Congress, we accomplished what no one else could,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce complete, most of the HQ FBI workforce will move in, and the rest are continuing in our ongoing push to put more manpower in the field, where they will remain,\u201d Patel said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis decision puts resources where they belong: defending the homeland, crushing violent crime, and protecting national security,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt delivers better tools for today\u2019s FBI workforce at a fraction of the cost,\u201d Patel added.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Hoover Building will be shut down permanently,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Fox News Digital exclusively obtained a memo Patel sent to FBI employees notifying them of the relocation and emphasizing that the move represents the \u201cmost cost effective way\u201d to serve the American people.<\/p>\n

Patel first signaled the shift in May, when he indicated the bureau would begin reallocating its workforce across the country and moving agents out of the Hoover Building, which opened in 1975.<\/p>\n

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