The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is set to relocate its headquarters from the J. Edgar Hoover Building to the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C., following years of discussion on modernizing the agency’s operations. Director Kash Patel, in an exclusive memo obtained by Fox News Digital, announced the decision, highlighting that the move is the ‘most cost-effective way’ to serve the American people. The memo, which was exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital, detailed the plans for the relocation, explaining that the FBI would be restructuring its workforce and moving agents out of the Hoover Building, which has been the bureau’s headquarters since 1975. President Donald Trump has publicly endorsed the move, stating that the FBI will finally have ‘the kind of building they deserve.’ In an exclusive interview, the president told Fox News Digital that the Ronald Reagan Building is ‘a wonderful building,’ and praised the FBI as ‘a wonderful group of people.’
Patel also made it clear that the decision to shut down the Hoover building and move the FBI to the Reagan Building is a significant step in modernizing the agency. In the memo, he emphasized that the move would ‘allow us to build for the future and maintain mission success while being tremendous stewards of taxpayer dollars.’ The source told Fox News Digital that the Hoover building is ‘a dump and not just unsafe for the FBI workforce, but unsafe for the country’s national security.’ In 2024, the General Services Administration (GSA) had said it would take more than a decade to build a newly constructed FBI headquarters, which would have been significantly more expensive than the relocation.