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Coronavirus relief package.... 1.75 billion for new FBI building?

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Can someone explain this?

Senate GOP coronavirus relief bill includes $1.75B for new FBI building at administration's request - KTVZ


How do they connect?

I get it, it is the way of congress to put pork in bills (both sides do it).....but seriously...when citizens/businesses need alot of help....why this?

Senate GOP coronavirus relief bill includes $1.75B for new FBI building at administration’s request
The Republican coronavirus stimulus proposal includes funds for the design and construction of a new FBI headquarters at the request of the Trump administration.

The bill includes $1.75 billion “for the design and construction of a Washington, D.C. headquarters facility for the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” according to the bill text.

The provision comes after the administration’s successful push for the funds caused significant problems during the intraparty negotiations. But the funding could still face an uncertain future, with at least two key Republicans withholding full support
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year2late said:
Can someone explain this?

Senate GOP coronavirus relief bill includes $1.75B for new FBI building at administration's request - KTVZ


How do they connect?

I get it, it is the way of congress to put pork in bills (both sides do it).....but seriously...when citizens/businesses need alot of help....why this?
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Yep, what better time to add pork to a bill than when it is declared "crisis legislation" and not a single congress critter will even hint at requiring any "pay for" to accompany the added deficit spending. ;)
 
year2late said:
Can someone explain this?

Senate GOP coronavirus relief bill includes $1.75B for new FBI building at administration's request - KTVZ


How do they connect?

I get it, it is the way of congress to put pork in bills (both sides do it).....but seriously...when citizens/businesses need alot of help....why this?
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As usual... Trump using power of Presidency for his pocketbook.

He needed it for his hotel.

2018

"Emails between top officials at the General Services Administration, released Thursday by House Democrats, indicate Trump ordered the agency to move forward with the plan to demolish and rebuild the headquarters on the J. Edgar Hoover Building property rather than move the FBI to Washington's suburbs.
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Former Public Buildings Service Commissioner Dorothy Robyn told the Times she met with Trump in 2013 as he was planning the Pennsylvania Avenue hotel, but his main interest in the meeting was the FBI headquarters project."

source

"Trump wants to demolish and rebuild the FBI's headquarters, the Democrats say, to preserve the site's government ownership and deny any potential competitors to the Trump International Hotel at the Old Post Office Pavilion up the street."

source



2020

"In calling for a new “Washington, DC headquarters facility,” the provision reflects President Trump’s ongoing interest in building a new headquarters for the FBI downtown, rather than a secure campus in the suburbs that was envisioned before he took office.
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Trump’s continued ownership of a hotel a block down Pennsylvania Avenue. Before Trump was elected, officials at his company raised concerns about a competing hotel possibly being built in place of the Hoover Building should the FBI relocate to the suburbs."

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But there is more....

In 2016, Trump considered bidding on doing the project himself... I suggest you keep an eye on who gets the lucrative contract for this $2 billion project... I'll be surprised if it's going to be someone UNrelated to Trump. Unless a little bribe will be involved along the way...
 
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year2late said:
Can someone explain this?

Senate GOP coronavirus relief bill includes $1.75B for new FBI building at administration's request - KTVZ


How do they connect?

I get it, it is the way of congress to put pork in bills (both sides do it).....but seriously...when citizens/businesses need alot of help....why this?
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This was part of the reason that the White House and the Senate Republicans could not come to an agreement in the COVID bill. Senate Republicans did not want the FBI building in the bill, but the White House kept insisting that it be in there.

It sounds like Trump figures he is going to lose the election and he had better get everything done that he actually cares about before he leaves office. The swamp has turned into a sewer.


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Moderate Right said:
So, you're saying that you don't want the FBI to have the best facilities to solve cases?
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What is wrong, specifically, with their current accommodations? What is in this “new” facility that will specifically help them? Oh yeah you don’t know, but since it is trump that wants it you will excuse anything he does.
 
Moderate Right said:
So, you're saying that you don't want the FBI to have the best facilities to solve cases?
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Get real! No one is going to believe that Trump wants the FBI to have a new building because of his great love for the FBI.


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Moderate Right said:
So, you're saying that you don't want the FBI to have the best facilities to solve cases?
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So, are trying to say it has something to do with corona virus relief?
Want money for it ask in a separate Bill.
 
fiscal conservatives/those against welfare are gonna raise hell about this bill.
 
You guys do know that trump has a hotel right down the road from his proposed new FBI building would be built, don't ya. Naaa trump wouldn't use his position to make money, would he. Originally the FBI wanted to build a new building further out of Washington for security issues but trump killed that idea, just a coincidence of course,
 
Casper said:
So, are trying to say it has something to do with corona virus relief?
Want money for it ask in a separate Bill.
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That is not how congress likes to operate. Jamming an extra $1B (or $2B) of pork into a "must pass" bill totaling over $1T might make it become a small matter of contention, but not a show stopper. ;)
 
ttwtt78640 said:
That is not how congress likes to operate. Jamming an extra $1B (or $2B) of pork into a "must pass" bill totaling over $1T might make it become a small matter of contention, but not a show stopper. ;)
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The odds are it will not make the final cut and be included in the Bill.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
One would hope not, but congress works in mysterious ways. ;)
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True, the Dems might buy into it if they get more of what they want for the American People.
 
Casper said:
True, the Dems might buy into it if they get more of what they want for the American People.
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Yep, having a bipartisan pork fest is a distinct possibility.
 
George50 said:
Get real! No one is going to believe that Trump wants the FBI to have a new building because of his great love for the FBI.


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So, you're saying that you don't want the FBI to have the best facilities to solve cases?
 
Moderate Right said:
So, you're saying that you don't want the FBI to have the best facilities to solve cases?
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And you haven't told us how it is related to the corna virus emergency.....
 
Moderate Right said:
So, you're saying that you don't want the FBI to have the best facilities to solve cases?
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Seems you love dodging this question and while I don't care if you answer it, I'll keep presenting it to show others how dishonest your comments really are. What is wrong, specifically, with their current accommodations? What is in this “new” facility that will specifically help them? Oh yeah you don’t know, but since it is trump that wants it you will excuse anything he does
 
holbritter said:
To be fair, the Democrats pull the same crap.
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I already noted that.

But realistically this one is not "the Republicans" pushing. This is Trump.

Seems like he may very well have some self serving reasons for this project.
 
year2late said:
I already noted that.

But realistically this one is not "the Republicans" pushing. This is Trump.

Seems like he may very well have some self serving reasons for this project.
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He has for a while:

A plan to relocate the FBI headquarters to the Washington, D.C., suburbs was surprisingly scrapped in favor of the far costlier option of rebuilding at its existing site — which happens to sit a block away from the Trump International Hotel. American Oversight is investigating what influence the White House and the Trump Organization might have had over a decision that ensures a huge city block remains free of competition for the president’s hotel.
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Trump’s Interference in the FBI Headquarters Relocation Plan - American Oversight

Filling the swamp.
 
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