Responding to Trump’s comments Friday, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said he would “fight that tooth and nail, and there will not be a penny appropriated for an FBI headquarters anywhere other than Greenbelt, Maryland.”

President Donald Trump has called off the FBI's headquarters project in Greenbelt, declaring instead a new building should be constructed in D.C.

In 2023, Greenbelt, Maryland won the GSA bid to host the new FBI headquarters, the end product of Maryland and Virginia lobbying to be its new home. It was a move that promised much-needed investment in Prince George’s County and the potential to bring more jobs with it.

President Donald Trump said Friday that he doesn’t want the new FBI headquarters to be built in Maryland but rather in the nation’s capital. Trump said he prefers Washington for the headquarters promised to 61 acres in Greenbelt in 2023.

President Donald Trump said he would seek to scrap a plan to move the Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters from Washington, DC to Maryland, and instead keep it in the nation’s capital — the latest in a long-running saga over the site for the agency’s main office.