FBI To “Permanently Close” Hoover Headquarters, Kash Patel Announces

FBI Director Kash Patel announced a finalized plan to “permanently close” the agency’s Hoover headquarters.

“After more than 20 years of failed attempts, we finalized a 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,” Patel said.

“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. Instead, we selected the already-existing Reagan Building, saving billions and allowing the transition to begin immediately with required safety and infrastructure upgrades already underway. Once complete, most of the HQ FBI workforce will move in, and the rest are continuing in our ongoing push to put more manpower in the field, where they will remain,” he continued.

“This decision puts resources where they belong: defending the homeland, crushing violent crime, and protecting national security. It delivers better tools for today’s FBI workforce at a fraction of the cost. The Hoover Building will be shut down permanently,” he added.

December 26: Shutting down the Hoover Building.

After more than 20 years of failed attempts, we finalized a 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…

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) December 26, 2025

Mediaite shared further:

When he was still a podcaster, before Donald Trump appointed him to head the FBI, Patel claimed that the bureau’s “footprint” was too large.

“I’d shut down the FBI Hoover Building on day one…and reopen it next day as a museum of the Deep State,” Patel told podcaster Shawn Ryan in 2023. And I’d take the 7,000 people who work in that building and send them across America to go and chase criminals…What do you need 7,000 people there for?”

“Every agency and department that I’ve ever worked for, when it comes to the fiscal end of the year, they’re like, go on trips, go spend money. What? Just give it back to Congress. We can’t do that,” Patel said at the time.

Check it out:

Kash Patel: “I’d shut down the FBI Hoover Building on day one and reopen it the next day as a museum of the Deep State. Then, I’d take the 7,000 employees that work in that building and send them across America to chase down criminals. Go be cops. You’re cops—go be cops.”

“Every… pic.twitter.com/lBexXKSpBf

— Shawn Ryan (@ShawnRyan762) December 1, 2024

The Center Square noted:

The U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency already use spaces in the Reagan building.