The FBI announced that rather than spend untold billion of dollars on a new suburban FBI campus, they would use the existing federally owned Ronald Reagan Building for their new headquarters. The FBI is vacating its longtime home the J. Edgar Hoover building due to poor building conditions.
One of the first agencies that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) went after for waste fraud and abuse at home and abroad was the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The U.S. Customs and Border Protection moved into the USAID’s shuttered headquarters, the Ronald Reagan Federal Building. Now, it will be the new FBI Headquarters.
"This is a historic moment for the FBI,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement. "Moving to the Ronald Reagan Building is the most cost effective and resource efficient way to carry out our mission to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution," he added.
In other news of the FBI embedding DOGE practices into their every day operation, the FBI rooted out fraud and abuse across the nation.
- A former electronics technician at the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office and his sister were charged today with felony charges for conspiring to defraud the United States to obtain at least $350,000 in low-bid electronics equipment contracts from the FBI.
The government seized over $245 million in cash, luxury vehicles, crypto currency, and other assets as part of the coordinated enforcement efforts. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services also announced that it successfully prevented over $4 billion from being paid in response to false and fraudulent claims and that it suspended or revoked the billing privileges of 205 providers in the months leading up to the Takedown.