Daniel Sernovitz writes the budget allocation for DHS’ Southeast Washington HQ is included in the chamber’s 2015 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill.
Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) told the publication that the federal government has pumped $1.5 billion into the project.
The DHS consolidation initiative’s estimated cost is $4.5 billion.
Sernovitz reports that the U.S. Coast Guard has relocated its headquarters from Buzzard Point to the St. Elizabeths complex.