On Friday, December the 26th, the day right after Christmas, FBI director Cash Patel came out

and he announced something that was a long time in the making, that the FBI will be permanently

shutting down their headquarters building. That is, of course, the J. Edgar Hoover Building,

located over in Washington, D.C., which, for your reference, has served as the FBI H.Q for the

past roughly 50 years.

Here was part of the statement released by Cash Patel announcing the change.

After more than 20 years of failed attempts, we finalized the plan to permanently close the FBI's

Hoover headquarters and move the workforce into a safe, modern facility. Working directly with

President Trump and Congress, we

accomplished what no one else could. When we arrived, taxpayers were about to be on the hook

for nearly $5 billion for a new headquarters that wouldn't open until 2035. We scrapped that plan.

Now, the plan that he's referencing in that statement, the one that would have caused the

taxpayers roughly $5 billion and would not have been operational until the year 2035, that was

something that was initiated under the Joe Biden administration. And actually, roughly two and a half

years ago, we did a full deep dive episode on their plan. but the gist of it was that the Biden administration

was going to move the FBI headquarters to a new 61-acre property in suburban Greenbelt, Maryland.

On that parcel of land, they were going to build a sprawling 2.1 million square foot campus,

meaning in a practical sense that the new FBI headquarters was

planned to be at least twice the size of the Pentagon. And just for your general reference,

the Pentagon covers only about 29 acres, and yet still, the Pentagon is already the largest

office building on Earth. And so that's pretty wild if you think about it. The largest

office building on Earth, which currently that's pretty wild if you think about it. The largest office building

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