FBI Director Kash Patel announced today that he will keep his big promise to shut down the agency’s current DC headquarters.
During a Friday morning interview on Fox Business with Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, Patel told host Maria Bartiromo that he has been making significant changes to the FBI’s business practices, beginning with a commonsense change that The Gateway Pundit previously wrote about.
“The FBI is 38,000 when we’re fully manned, which we’re not,” Patel explained. “In the national capital region…There were 11,000 FBI employees; that is a third of the workforce. So we’re taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out.”
“Every state is getting a plus-up,” he added. “When we do things like that, we inspire people to become intel agents and say, ‘We want to work at the FBI.’”
“In the next three, six, nine months, we’re going to do that hard.”
Then he dropped a massive bombshell, which even Bongino was surprised by: The FBI will no longer use the Hoover building.
“This FBI is leaving the Hoover building because this building is unsafe for our workforce,” he announced.
This caused Bongino to laugh and quip, “You just gave up a big nugget, there.”
WATCH:
#BREAKING: Kash Patel announces he is SHUTTING DOWN the FBI Headquarters in DC
Turn it into a deep state museum, Director Kash! pic.twitter.com/bK6Mj20MMA
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 16, 2025
Patel then explained that he is also shutting down the current headquarters to send a message to future recruits.
“We want the American men and women to know that if you’re going to work at the premier law enforcement agency in the country, we’re going to give you a building that is commensurate with that.”
As TGP readers know, Patel previously promised to shut down the Hoover building and turn it into a museum to the Deep State.
This would not be a more fitting tribute, considering the extensive civil rights violations that have occurred since the agency’s start.
THIS is what WINNING looks like:
“I’d shut down the Hoover FBI Building on DAY ONE and reopen it as a Deep State Museum…” -Kash Patel pic.twitter.com/28ttutWCLB
— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) January 30, 2025
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