I’ve introduced and supported numerous pieces of common sense legislation to address gun violence, yet the Republican-controlled Congress has refused to even consider them. That will change come January.
Newly released emails and an official White House photo provide evidence suggesting that President Trump himself directed the General Services Administration and the FBI to modify a years-in-the-works plan to move the FBI’s downtown Washington headquarters.
The change of plans, a more expensive alternative to simply selling or leasing the site in exchange for constructing a new FBI headquarters elsewhere, prevented "Trump Hotel competitors from acquiring the land" on which the J. Edgar Hoover Building now stands.
President Trump was directly involved with the decision to abandon the long-term relocation plan and instead move ahead with the more expensive proposal to construct a new building on the same site, and thereby prevent Trump Hotel competitors from acquiring the land.
Five House Democrats alleged Thursday that President Trump had personally ordered that the FBI headquarters remain in downtown Washington so that a potential competitor could not develop the site.
Administration emails show that President Donald Trump intervened personally to keep FBI headquarters in downtown Washington rather than relocate it to the suburbs as had long been planned.
A new plan to rebuild FBI headquarters on its current site could "cost hundreds of millions of dollars more" than the plan to move to the suburbs and would accommodate 2,300 fewer employees.