GOP Relief Bill Includes Funds for FBI Building

The Republican coronavirus stimulus proposal includes $1.75 billion for the design and construction of a new FBI headquarters at the request of the Trump administration, CNN reports.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell initially indicated at a news conference Monday that he was not aware the FBI provision was in the bill but then moments later said the White House “insisted that be included.”

“The Justice Department’s inspector general said last year that it would probe a decision to scrap plans to move the FBI headquarters out of Washington to the district’s suburbs, a decision that may have benefited Trump’s nearby hotel.”