参议院共和党人周二继续远离提议资助建设一个新的联邦调查局总部在他们的1万亿美元冠状病毒救助计划，一个由唐纳德·特朗普总统受到民主党人的批评宣称努力旨在保护总统的经济利益。
参议院拨款委员会主席理查·谢尔比说:“这是政府的要求。”，星期二说。
2017年，特朗普政府取消了国会批准的在华盛顿郊区为该局修建一个大型校园的计划，转而选择在宾夕法尼亚大道上的埃德加·胡佛大楼(J. Edgar Hoover Building)的旧址——特朗普华盛顿特区酒店的对面。
司法部监察长目前正在调查这一决定。民主党人表示，这一决定是为了保护特朗普酒店的价值，不让街对面的场地进入商业房地产市场，并阻止竞争对手的建设。
“他们设法有足够的钱为联邦调查局总部提供20亿美元，使特朗普酒店受益，他们说他们没有钱提供食品援助?”纽约州参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默说，“到底发生了什么?”
众议院议长南希·佩洛西(Nancy Pelosi)周一表示，该项目已列入法案，“这样总统就没人能在街对面建酒店了。”
2020年7月27日，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普抵达华盛顿白宫南草坪，向媒体成员挥手致意
共和党人在1万亿美元提案的细节上仍有分歧——其中包括向纳税人直接支付1200美元，通过薪资保障计划为小企业提供更多资金，为企业提供责任保护，以及提供1000亿美元帮助学校和学院重新开学——周二，共和党人对该提案中为联邦调查局总部提供的资金表示困惑。
参议院司法委员会主席林赛·格雷厄姆说:“这对我来说毫无意义。”
佛罗里达州参议员里克·斯科特说:“我就是不明白。”
参议员迈克布朗，印第安纳州:“即使白宫想要它，我会反对它，因为它肯定没有必要。”，星期二说。
参议院多数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔说:“我反对无关紧要的修正案。”，周二在参议院共和党每周午餐会后说。“当我们结束这一进程时，我希望所有非COVID的措施都被取消，不管它们在开始时是什么样的法案。”
周一，麦康奈尔并不知道该条款已被纳入参议院共和党法案，并告诉记者向特朗普政府询问此事。
白宫办公厅主任马克·梅多斯(Mark Meadows)周二抵达白宫，与共和党参议员会面，为联邦调查局总部的资金支持进行辩护，他告诉记者，“上一个法案中有许多内容与冠状病毒无关。”我想每个人都承认这是一种资助机制。
他补充道:“我不认为这会妨碍我们达成协议。”
2019年2月28日，在华盛顿市中心的宾夕法尼亚大道上，j .埃德加·胡佛大楼是联邦调查局的总部。
总务管理局将有关该项目的状况的问题提交给联邦调查局。
“对新的联邦调查局总部设施的需求并没有减少。美国联邦调查局需要一座能够满足这个国家首要的国家安全和执法机构日益增长的需求的大楼——一座能够在未来几十年里支持和加强联邦调查局工作的设施。”“美国联邦调查局将继续与总务管理局、司法部、管理和预算办公室以及国会在前进的道路上进行协调。”
特朗普上周为在冠状病毒谈判中为新的联邦调查局项目提供资金的努力进行了辩护，同时他还努力在目前的市中心位置重建该局总部。
“他们在马里兰州和弗吉尼亚州不同的地方寻找，但他们可能已经太远了。所以我一直鼓励他们建造它。”
民主党周二还将目标定在了300亿美元的国防开支上，共和党人将此纳入了他们的提案，佩洛西和舒默称之为“对国防承包商的贿赂基金。”
参议院共和党最高拨款人谢尔比说，这笔资金对于支持美国国防工业的就业非常重要。
他说:“现在很多都被侵蚀了，很多人失业了，很多供应商也参与其中。”“我们有机会为国家建立安全，这很重要。”
Senate GOP coronavirus relief package includes $1.75 billion for new FBI headquarters near Trump hotel
Senate Republicans on Tuesday continued todistance themselves froma proposal tofund the constructionof a new FBI headquarters in their $1 trillioncoronavirusrelief package, an unrelated provision pushed byPresident Donald Trumpand criticized by Democrats, whoclaim the effortis aimed at protecting the president's financial interests.
"It was a request from the administration," Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby, R-Ala., said Tuesday.
In 2017, the Trump administration scrapped a congressionally approved effort underway for several years to build a large campus for the bureau in Washington's suburbs, opting instead for a new headquarters on the site of the J. Edgar Hoover Building on Pennsylvania Avenue -- across the street from Trump's Washington, D.C., hotel.
The Justice Department inspector general is now investigating that decision, which Democrats say was an effort to protect the value of Trump's hotel by keeping the site across the street off the commercial real estate market, and prevent the construction of a competitor.
"They managed to have enough money for $2 billion dollars for the FBI headquarters that benefits Trump hotel and they say they have no money for food assistance?" said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. "What the heck is going on?"
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said on Monday that the project is in the bill "so that the president -- nobody could build a hotel across the street."
Republicans, who are still divided on the details of the $1 trillion proposal -- which includes $1,200 direct payments to taxpayers, more funds for small businesses through the Paycheck Protection Program, liability protections for businesses and $100 billion to help schools and colleges reopen -- expressed confusion on Tuesday about the funding for the FBI headquarters in the proposal.
"That makes no sense to me," said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsay Graham, R-S.C.
"I just don't get it," said Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla.
"Even if the White House wanted it, I'd be against it because it's certainly not necessary," Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., said Tuesday.
"I am opposed to non-germane amendments," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said on Tuesday after the Senate GOP weekly luncheon. "When we get to the end of the process I would hope that all of the non-COVID measures are out, no matter what bills they were in at the start."
McConnell was unaware on Monday that the provision made its way into the Senate GOP bill and told reporters to ask the Trump administration about it.
Arriving for a meeting with Republican senators on Tuesday, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows defended the FBI headquarters funding, telling reporters that "there are number of things in the last bill that had nothing to do with the coronavirus. I think everybody acknowledges that it's a funding mechanism.
"I don't see it standing in the way of us getting a deal," he added.
The General Services Administration referred questions about the status of the project to the FBI.
"The need for a new FBI headquarters facility has not abated. The FBI needs a building capable of meeting the increased demands of the nation's premier national security and law enforcement organization -- a facility that will enable and enhance the FBI's work for decades to come," an FBI official told ABC News. "The FBI will continue to coordinate with the General Services Administration, the Department of Justice, the Office of Management and Budget, and Congress on a path forward."
Trump last week defended efforts to fund the new FBI project in the coronavirus negotiations, along with his efforts to rebuild the bureau's headquarters at its current downtown location.
"They were looking in sites in Maryland and Virginia, in different places, but they would've been too far away. So I've been encouraging them to build it," he said.
Democrats on Tuesday also took aim at $30 billion in defense spending that Republicans included in their proposal, with Pelosi and Schumer calling it a "slush fund to defense contractors."
Shelby, the top GOP appropriator in the Senate, said the funding is important to support American jobs in the defense industry.
"A lot of it has been eroded right now, a lot of people off of work, a lot of suppliers involved in there," he said. "Every chance we get to build security for the country, that's important."
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