{"id":10076,"date":"2019-10-24T14:34:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T14:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/10\/24\/these-senators-want-to-move-agency-headquarters-out-of-dc\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:32:21","slug":"these-senators-want-to-move-agency-headquarters-out-of-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/2019\/10\/24\/these-senators-want-to-move-agency-headquarters-out-of-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators want to move these agency headquarters out of DC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Trump administration\u2019s decision to move three agency components outside the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area has spurred a sizeable amount of controversy, but Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., want to keep going with that trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two senators introduced a bill Oct. 23 that would move about 90 percent of the workforce at the headquarters for 10 federal agencies to other states around the country and pop the \u201cbubble\u201d of D.C. federal employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEvery year Americans\u2019 hard-earned tax dollars fund federal agencies that are mainly located in the D.C. bubble. That\u2019s a big part of the problem with Washington: they\u2019re too removed from the rest of America,\u201d said Hawley in a news release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe HIRE Act will move policymakers directly into the communities they serve, creating thousands of jobs for local communities and saving taxpayers billions of dollars along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t