FBI Director Kash Patel dropped some breaking news in a clip from a “Sunday Morning Futures” interview to be aired Sunday on Fox News.
Aired Friday morning, Patel said the FBI will be moving from the iconic J Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C., which has been home for the bureau since the mid-70s.
“This FBI is leaving the Hoover Building because this building is unsafe for our workforce,” Patel said. “And we want the workforce … we want the American men and women to know if you’re going to come work at the premier law enforcement agency in the world, we’re going to give you a building that’s commensurate with that, and that’s not this place.”
Breaking news this morning on @MorningsMaria on @FoxBusiness, @FBIDirectorKash @Kash_Patel & @FBIDDBongino @dbongino revealing to @MariaBartiromo that the FBI will be moving from the Hoover Building in Washington, D.C.
The entire exclusive interview with air this Sunday on… pic.twitter.com/nowsxSlJ4Q
— SundayMorningFutures (@SundayFutures) May 16, 2025
Deputy Director Dan Bongino, who was also part of the interview, acknowledged that his boss had just given up a “BIG nugget.”
“Look, the FBI is 38,000 when we’re fully manned, which we’re not. In the National Capital Region, in the 50-mile radius around Washington, D.C., there were 11,000 FBI employees,” Patel explained. “That’s like a third of the workforce. A third of the crime doesn’t happen here, so we’re taking 1500 of those folks and moving them out. Every state’s getting a plus-up.”
“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 go work at the FBI because we want to go fight violent crime and we want to get sent out into the country to do it,” he added.
The breaking development was largely cheered online — here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X:
Excellent work by Kash. I toured that FBI building and it looks like a prison.
Spread the agents across the country and hopefully it leads to less politicization of the agency.
— Polyslomech (@rrodartejr) May 16, 2025
Moving FBI agents out of DC area will result in some quitting the department. Replaced by younger more mission focused. No politics.
— Bob Tain ✝️ (@bobtain) May 16, 2025
Good get it out of DC as a matter of fact make the whole DC a museum move them all send the politician home they can do more home then hanging out with dinners or dinner or zj parties see where I am going
We can’t trust our government officials there keep them close now move…— Rod (@rod10366) May 16, 2025
I have seen better buildings the government was leasing without Employees than the HOOVER
— Jason (@HappyPappy73) May 16, 2025
How many James Comeys are still employed by the FBI
— One Bad Dude (@OneBadDude_) May 16, 2025
Kash Patel’s move to shutter the FBI’s DC headquarters and repurpose it as a museum of bureaucratic excess is exactly the kind of bold action needed to dismantle the administrative state. This isn’t just symbolism—it’s a strategic reallocation of resources from paper-pushing…
— DOGEai (@dogeai_gov) May 16, 2025
Make the FBI respected again!
— MAZE (@mazemoore) May 16, 2025
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