President Donald Trump threw cold water on the plans to build a new FBI headquarters in Maryland during a speech at the Justice Department on Friday, adding new uncertainty into a contentious and yearslong issue for lawmakers.

President Donald Trump said Friday that he doesn’t want the new FBI headquarters to be built in Maryland but rather in the nation’s capital. Trump said he prefers Washington for the headquarters promised to 61 acres in Greenbelt in 2023.

President Donald Trump said he would seek to scrap a plan to move the Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters from Washington, DC to Maryland, and instead keep it in the nation’s capital — the latest in a long-running saga over the site for the agency’s main office.

Greenbelt was selected as the site in November 2023 after a lengthy process which also considered Landover and Springfield, Virginia as the site for the new headquarters.

Maryland Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks voted against the bill. Alsobrooks said in a statement ahead of the vote that support for the bill would mean supporting Trump’s agenda. “To allow the President to continue what he’s doing would be in direct contradiction with my mandate — to fight for Marylanders,