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Antwan Scott
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New Senate GOP coronavirus bill includes unrelated White House demand for FBI headquarters money
If you'll remember, there was a plan to build a new FBI building in the suburbs, but Trump cancelled it because he wants the building to be near his hotel, and he doesn't want a competing hotel to be built where the building is now.
Asked Monday what a new FBI building had to do with the novel coronavirus, Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.), a key negotiator of the stimulus package, paused and said, “Good question.”
Shelby, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said that for some items the bill had to “stretch the link” to the pandemic.
“This is an administration proposal to move on with the FBI. They need a new FBI building down the street; it’s not safe to work in, you know, and so forth,” he said.
If you'll remember, there was a plan to build a new FBI building in the suburbs, but Trump cancelled it because he wants the building to be near his hotel, and he doesn't want a competing hotel to be built where the building is now.