The head of the General Services Administration defended the agency’s site selection process for the new FBI headquarters on Tuesday, as lawmakers critical of the process indicated they would ask the agency’s watchdog to review the matter.
Lawmakers on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability pressed GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan for answers on the agency’s decision to name Greenbelt, Md., as the home of the new FBI headquarters.
The decision was part of a lengthy competition between Maryland and Virginia over where the new facility would be built, but the announcement also comes as conservative Republicans try to kneecap funding for the project over hostility toward FBI leadership.
