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FBI To Leave Historic HQ That Kash Patel Once Promised To Make A ‘Museum Of The Deep State’

FBI Director Kash Patel announced his agency would be permanently closing its headquarters at Washington D.C.’s J. Edgar Hoover Building on Friday, a site he once vowed to turn into a “museum of the deep state.”

Breaking the news on X, Patel confirmed long-promised plans to make the FBI decamp from its time-worn but historic brutalist-style home base, which has housed the agency since its opening in 1975.

In his post, Patel boasted that he, along with President Donald Trump and his Republican-led Congress, had “accomplished what no one else could” with its decision to move personnel to “safe, modern facility” at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, the former location of the now-defunct U.S. Agency for International Development.

FBI Director Kash Patel, here in the Oval Office on Dec. 12, confirmed long-promised plan to move the agency out of Washington D.C.'s historic Hoover Building in a Friday post on X.

It’s unclear if Patel, who has long endorsed the theory that a group of shadowy Washington insiders covertly control what happens on Capitol Hill, intends to follow through on his post-election podcast promise to turn the Hoover Building into a “museum of the deep state.”

But moving the FBI’s hub to another site in D.C. comes as a slap in the face to the state of Maryland, which was in 2023 picked to be the home of the agency’s new headquarters following an extended and contentious search.

Patel cited financial reasons for reneging on the plans with Maryland, arguing the brand new complex would leave taxpayers “on the hook for nearly $5 billion” and take until 2035 to open.

Patel, who has endorsed the idea that a shadowy group of Washington insiders of covertly control the U.S. government, previously vowed to turn the Hoover Building into a

News the FBI would remain in D.C. comes after Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D), along with other officials from The Free State, filed a suit to stop what it called an “unlawful diversion” of headquarter plans last month.

In a Nov. 6 statement, State Attorney General Anthony Brown said he refused to let the Trump administration “strip away what Prince George’s County won and deny its communities the transformative benefits this project would bring.”

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Further defending the FBI’s move to the already-existing Reagan Building, Patel said it was also part of his push to decentralize the agency and place “manpower in the field, where they will remain.”

“This decision puts resources where they belong: defending the homeland, crushing violent crime, and protecting national security,” his X announcement said. “It delivers better tools for today’s FBI workforce at a fraction of the cost.”