What our Coronavirus Relief Bill Needs: $1,700,000,000.00 for a new FBI Headquarters

$1,700,000,000.00 That is One Billion and 700 Million dollars for a new FBI HQ. (Or $11,450 for each dead American to line Trump's pockets.)

You may ask why the FBI funds are in the Coronavirus Relief Bill.

• Is it because the building is useless? - No.
• Is it because the building is ugly*? - No - but that is the excuse
• Is it because they might move FBI into a new HQ outside of town? - Yes, but how cares about that with 148,000 dead people?

So President Trump has dictated that all new Federal Buildings have to be built in the Neo-Classical style (columns, marble, serio-greek religious temples of design). And the Hoover FBI Building isn't classical in the leas (FYI - J. Edgar Hoover, not Herbert Hoover).

But why seek to change it right now? Well, follow the money. The Trump Washington Hotel is next door. The current plan is to move the FBI out of downtown and sell the building and/or property to a hotel builder. But a new hotel, or cheaper hotel next to Trump's Hotel and that would cost him money. So he wants to scuttle that plan while he still has a chance to make money of the Presidency.

For those keeping track at home. This is Un-Constitutional (emoluments clause), political bribery (against Federal Law) and unethical (against Senate Rules). ... And also just a shitty way to treat the public - as your personal piggy bank.

* The building being "ugly" is up to the viewers taste. I will say that in regards to design, I tend to agree with President Trump on this particular buidling. It is not forceful enough to be brutalist, and seems to strive for that 1970's Mall crossed with Prison vibe. It also screws with the streets in a walkable area - as it is a giant "stay away" building that doesn't interact with pedestrians.