Virginia lawmakers launched their final bid on Thursday to sway the General Services Administration to select a site in Springfield as the new home of the FBI headquarters.
Lawmakers from Virginia launched their final bid on Thursday to sway the General Services Administration to select a site in Springfield as the new home of the FBI headquarters over two Maryland locations — although the fierce political battle with lawmakers from Maryland appears far from over.Emerging from the consultation with the GSA, Sen.
And in back-to-back news conferences held on Wednesday and Thursday, Team Maryland and Team Virginia continued to up the ante, especially on the issues of racial equity and cost.Maryland Gov. Wes Moore , the state’s first Black governor, said in an interview earlier this week that winning the headquarters in Prince George’s, a majority-Black county, is personal for him.
He and Kaine pointed to proximity not only to Quantico but also to the CIA in Langley, arguing that both agencies would benefit from more collaboration, and also pointed to Fairfax County’s well-performing public school system as another reason the FBI would want to come to Springfield. But Sen. Chris Van Hollen argued that, even considering all of that, the Maryland sites are still cheaper. He asserted at the Wednesday news conference that it would cost over a billion more dollars more to situate the new FBI headquarters in Springfield versus in Landover or Greenbelt — cost estimates that Warner said are “totally wrong, out of left field and have no basis in fact.
To arrive at the claim that it would cost over $1 billion to select Springfield, he added up the annual costs of inaction — $268 million — and multiplied that by three years. He included an additional $160 million in what the FBI and the GSA described as “potential emergency repairs” the longer the FBI remained in the Hoover building.
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