BREAKING: Kash Patel announces permanent closure of FBI HQ Hoover Building

On Friday, FBI Director Kash Patel announced that the Washington, DC headquarters of the FBI, the Hoover Building, will be shutting down. The plan is to move that HQ to a smaller, more modern building.

"December 26: Shutting down the Hoover Building," Patel posted.

"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," he 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 said.

In May 2025, Patel announced that the FBI would be leaving the building and that 1,500 staffers from DC would be spread out into field offices across the United States. The new headquarters will be in the Ronald Reagan Building complex.

In July, the FBI announced that the move "follows nearly two decades of attempts to find the needed space to meet the FBI’s mission and workforce requirements. Previous efforts focused on constructing a new suburban campus, which would have cost the taxpayers billions of dollars and would have taken years to construct.

"In support of the administration’s goal to optimize the federal real-estate portfolio, the GSA and FBI identified an existing federal property. The Ronald Reagan Building complex provides a world-class facility that supports the FBI’s critical mission and saves money for taxpayers."