By Steve Neavling
Ticklethewire.com
The General Services Administration’s inspector general is investigating President Trump’s abrupt change in plans for a new FBI headquarters.
“My office will review GSA’s decision-making process for the revised FBI Headquarters Consolidation project,” GSA Inspector General Carol Ochoa wrote in a letter to Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Virginia, on Tuesday. “The scope of our review will include whether the revised plan properly accounts for the full costs and security requirements of the project.”
Connolly, a leading Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, requested the investigation to determine why the president abandoned a decade-long plan to move the headquarters to a consolidated campus in Washington D.C.’s suburbs.
Trump’s new plan calls for demolishing the current headquarters, which is cramped and outdated, and replace it with a new building.
Connolly and other lawmakers said the GSA has failed to give an adequate explanation for the sudden change in plans.
