FBI = Funding Backlash Immiserates (Virginia and Maryland Pols)

We're finally near the end of a decade-long process to build a new FBI HQ.

Now is not the time to play petty politics. Yet, Jim Jordan & MAGA Republicans are weaponizing the federal government to "Defund the FBI."

This kind of political interference is wrong and irresponsible. pic.twitter.com/FH3rNchyrR

— Rep. Jennifer Wexton (@RepWexton) July 13, 2023

So there will be no $$$ billions coming out of Congress this fiscal year to pay for a new FBI HQ, or so it seems today.

That causes me no grief at all, since it is perfectly clear - to me, anyway - that the current downtown DC location is exactly where the FBI should remain, albeit in a new building to be built on the site of the current disastrous Hoover Building. 

As for "petty politics" and "political interference," the esteemed Representatives who are wailing about that today are the first ones to use the power of government without a second thought when they are in the majority. Today it's the other side that has the whip hand, and they are using it.

If the FBI wants the Republican majority to fund their relocation, they might try not pissing that majority off, as their Director did yesterday, and see if that helps.