Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel announced his bureau will be leaving the nation’s capital late last week, although he didn’t say where the bureau’s next headquarters would be.

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From Daily Caller:

Patel said the FBI is leaving the J. Edgar Hoover Building in an interview with Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo, according to a clip posted on X.

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“This FBI is leaving the Hoover building,” he stated. “This building is unsafe for our workforce.”

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“We want the American men and women to know if you are going to come work at the premier law enforcement agency in the world, we are going to give you a building that is commensurate with that and that is not this place,” Patel continued.

On a related note, the FBI Director said that many of the bureau’s agents previously located in the D.C. area will be moved elsewhere.

Patel also noted in the interview that the FBI will transfer many of its D.C. employees to other places in the country.

“Look, the FBI is 38,000 when we are fully manned, which we are not,” he said. “In the national capital region—in the 50 mile radius around Washington, D.C., there were 11,000 FBI employees. That is like a third of the workforce. A third of the crime does not happen here. So we are taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out.”

These actions seem to line up with Director Patel’s previously stated goals. Daily Caller notes that he “has previously advocated for “shutting down” the D.C. headquarters and reorienting the FBI toward catching criminals.”

You can watch the clip of Director Patel announcing the move below:

Breaking news this morning on @MorningsMaria on @FoxBusiness, @FBIDirectorKash @Kash_Patel & @FBIDDBongino @dbongino revealing to @MariaBartiromo that the FBI will be moving from the Hoover Building in Washington, D.C.

The entire exclusive interview with air this Sunday on… pic.twitter.com/nowsxSlJ4Q

— SundayMorningFutures (@SundayFutures) May 16, 2025

We have prayed for years for the FBI to be less political. Now that it is leaving the political swamp that is D.C., we pray the bureau would return to its roots and focus on protecting Americans!

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(Excerpt from Daily Caller. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Kash Patel, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=127058407)