by Charles Kim at Newsmax
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is pushing for the FBI to build new headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama, instead of Washington, D.C., to take politics out of how the agency functions, the The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
According to the report, Jordan may cut the bureau’s funding unless it moves to Alabama’s midsized city, roughly 700 miles from the nation’s capital.
The FBI plans to move its headquarters from near the White House to the suburbs. Still, Republicans are upset with how the agency has targeted former President Donald Trump and are threatening to strip funding for the new facility in response, the Journal reported.
The agency said that any budget cuts imposed by Congress would be “detrimental to the support the FBI provides to the American people,” citing “numerous operational reasons” to keep the facility close to the D.C. area, including staying close to its academy in Quantico, Virginia, the report said.
The Huntsville site would likely be part of a recent agency multiyear expansion at the Redstone Arsenal,…
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