By Nate Raymond

(Reuters) -Maryland on Thursday sued the Trump administration over its decision to scrap a Biden-era plan to construct new FBI headquarters just outside of Washington, D.C., in the state.

The state alleged in a lawsuit that the Republican administration was attempting to unlawfully “sabotage” the Greenbelt, Maryland, location and divert over $1 billion approved by Congress to an alternate location, the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington.

The FBI did not respond to a request for comment.

The administration in July announced the new site, which is not far from the J. Edgar Hoover Building, the agency’s current headquarters. In the process, it cancelled the prior Biden administration plan for the Maryland headquarters.

“The problem with the current FBI building is that

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