Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) issued a sharp rebuke of President Donald Trump after the president said he would block Maryland from hosting the FBI’s headquarters. Greenbelt, Maryland, was selected as the site for the new FBI headquarters in November 2023 under the Biden administration, a move Maryland leaders praised at the time.

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.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is no fan of President Donald Trump’s plan to build the new FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C ., instead of in his state. In a social media post Saturday, Moore touted the 61-acre site promised to Greenbelt in 2023 as “build ready” and criticized Trump for “turning this into a partisan issue.