Marylanders in Congress made their first move Thursday inside the Senate Appropriations Committee to use this year’s government funding bills to pinch the Trump administration for abandoning the longtime plan to move the FBI’s headquarters to their home state.
After a decadelong competition between leaders in Maryland and Virginia, the suburban town of Greenbelt was chosen in 2023 for the bureau’s new campus. But the Trump administration officially ditched that plan this month, leaving about $1.4 billion in a construction account set aside for the relocation project.
Now Chris Van Hollen, Maryland’s senior senator and a top appropriator, wants…
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