On Wednesday, Gaetz launched a vehement attack against the House, the FBI, and Democrats while on the House floor, criticizing their appeal for funding aimed at developing an expansive new facility in Washington DC. "They want to spend more than $300 million on that complex. Though the FBI has an employee base that's about 2.3% of the United States military. Mr. Speaker, they're literally asking for something that is larger than the Pentagon for the FBI," said Gaetz.
"They've worked hard to censor factual information harmful to their preferred political candidates, notably the Hunter Biden laptop story that the FBI, based in the DC metro area, were involved in cajoling censorship of. Building a new headquarters would condone, reinforce, and enable the Washington Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigations' nefarious behavior. We shouldn't do it, and we should adopt this amendment to ensure that's the case." On the other side of the aisle, Rep. Womack rises not so much in defense of the FBI's request but in opposition to what he views as precipitate action against it.
Womack said, "We're not always going to hate the FBI, but what I do know is that when I toured the FBI headquarters, I saw it in a state of disrepair that is going to need the attention of the owners of that property, and that's us. The fact is, the building is crumbling and there's going to be a need to do something." Gaetz remained undeterred, accentuating that his primary concern revolved around the erosion of civil liberties under the FBI's aegis.
"My colleague from Arkansas says that the FBI headquarters is in a state of disrepair. Mr. Speaker, it is the FBI itself that is in a state of disrepair. And so while my colleague from Arkansas may be right that we may not always hate the FBI, how about while we are most concerned about the things they are doing, we not go build them a new 300 million dollar building?" "The notion that we would stand here and defend them, frankly, is deeply disappointing. And I think those folks deserve to sit in the rat-infested J. Edgar Hoover Building until they get their acts straight with America's civil liberties," Gaetz concluded.
WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWtlkuJXdqQ
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, despite the outspoken opposition, the bill garnered ample support, notably from the Democrat party, along with 70 Republicans voting in favor of constructing the new FBI headquarters.
For more than a decade, local and federal leaders and real estate developers jockeyed over who would build and host a modern FBI headquarters serving thousands of employees.
The FBI - located in the large, Brutalist-style J. Edgar Hoover Building on Pennsylvania Avenue NW since 1975 - has said it needs a new headquarters to consolidate 11,000 personnel from more than a dozen locations around the region.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/maryland-selected-new-fbi-headquarters-as-70-gop/
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