Virginia lawmakers make push for new FBI headquarters in Springfield

SPRINGFIELD, Va. – Virginia lawmakers are making their closing push to relocate the Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters to their state.

Governor Glenn Youngkin, Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, and different Virginia leaders are holding a press convention Wednesday because the FBI and Basic Providers Administration work to finalize a location for his or her new important workplaces.

In a letter to the GSA and FBI submitted earlier this month, Youngkin, and different Virginia lawmakers, made an in depth case in hopes of swaying the federal authorities to decide on the positioning in Springfield, Virginia.

FOX 5’s Bob Barnard spoke with Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeff McKay forward of the assembly who stated the Springfield website affords infrastructure, Metro and railway entry that different choices don’t. The present facility is also transformed to suit the wants of each the FBI and GSA, McKay stated. The Pentagon, Central Intelligence Company, Quantico FBI coaching academy, and Transportation Safety Administration headquarters are additionally close by.

“The truth that you may get on a prepare proper right here and go proper to the Quantico website, in a matter of a few minutes, is an asset that no person else within the area has,” McKay stated. “All of the property are right here, and so we do not have to attend to construct one thing to draw them right here. They will come right here tomorrow and achieve success, and we’ve got all of the issues in place to make that occur.”

The present headquarters in Washington has lengthy involved Congress, because the constructing has deteriorated. A survey not too long ago named the constructing one of many ugliest within the U.S. Maryland leaders are hoping to relocate the headquarters to websites in both Greenbelt or Landover.

The Related Press contributed to this report.