Kash Patel announces major FBI workforce relocation away from Washington, D.C.

Three Key Takeaways:

FBI Director Kash Patel is implementing substantial changes to the bureau’s operations.

His plan aims to disperse the agency’s workforce throughout the country.

And Kash Patel announced a significant decision about FBI personnel that will reshape the bureau’s structure.

FBI employees are being shipped out of Washington, D.C.

The FBI is another Washington, D.C. institution that’s been captured by the Deep State and the Left.

President Donald Trump tasked new FBI director Kash Patel with bringing the weaponization of the bureau to an end.

Trump has prioritized moving government agencies and employees out of the Washington, D.C. Swamp.

Patel announced in an interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo that the FBI was transferring D.C. employees to offices around the country.

“Look, the FBI is 38,000 when we are fully manned, which we are not,” Patel explained. “In the national capital region, in the 50-mile radius around Washington, DC, there were 11,000 FBI employees. That’s like a third of the workforce. A third of the crime doesn’t happen here.”

Every FBI field office in the country would be getting reinforcements from D.C.

“So we are taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out,” Patel added. “Every state is getting a plus-up [additional D.C. agents]. And I think when we do things like that, we inspire folks in America to become intel analysts and agents and say, ‘We want to work at the FBI because we want to fight violent crime and we want to be sent out into the country to do it.’”

The FBI headquarters is being shut down

Patel previously vowed that he would shut down the FBI’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., and turn it into a museum of the Deep State.

“I’d take the 7,000 employees who work in that building and send them across America to chase down criminals,” Patel told podcast host Shawn Ryan in 2024.

He announced during the interview that the FBI’s longtime headquarters, J. Edgar Hoover Building, would be shutting down.

“I didn’t know that I was going to do this, but I’m going to announce on your show anyway, the FBI is leaving the Hoover building because this building is unsafe for our workforce,” Patel stated.

Patel didn’t specify what was unsafe about the FBI building or where its new headquarters would be.

RINO Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) approved a Democrat budget under former President Joe Biden last year that included a $200 million down payment for the new FBI headquarters.

That was on top of $1.5 billion that had already been appropriated for the building.

A location for the new FBI headquarters was selected in Greenbelt, Maryland, in 2023 by the General Services Administration (GSA).

The building was supposed to be bigger than the Pentagon, but Trump put a halt to the project after he took office.

Patel is making good on his promise of shifting more FBI employees into the field from Washington, D.C.

FBI agents will be focused on fighting crime away from the negative influence of the Swamp.

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