Key facts
- A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's plan to move the FBI headquarters to Washington, D.C.
- The court ruled the administration unlawfully diverted funds approved by Congress for the FBI headquarters project.
- The judge found the administration violated congressional mandates by selecting a site outside the approved list.
- The ruling prevents the use of $555 million in congressionally approved funds for the alternate D.C. site.
U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang on Monday blocked a Trump administration plan to relocate the new FBI headquarters to Washington, D.C., rather than to Greenbelt, Maryland, which had been selected as the site. The judge sided with Maryland's attorney general and a county, ruling that the administration had unlawfully scrapped a plan to construct the new headquarters in Greenbelt and diverted funds approved by Congress to an alternate location, the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington.