Shrink FBI headquarters and eliminate offices without Congress
What the document says“The next conservative Administration should eliminate any offices within the FBI that it has the power to eliminate without any action from Congress.”
The chapter gives the FBI's Office of General Counsel as its example, saying it holds about 300 attorneys, has been involved in what it calls some of the FBI's most damaging recent scandals, and that these attorneys are not necessary in their current capacity because legal advice should come from department attorneys. It separately asks that field offices be emphasized, funded and rewarded while headquarters staff shrinks, saying the department must value badges over bureaucracy.
What the document actually says“The next conservative Administration should eliminate any offices within the FBI that it has the power to eliminate without any action from Congress.”
Close any FBI office that can be closed without asking Congress.
The FBI has many offices at its headquarters. The book says some can be closed by the department alone. It wants those closed.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Executive Order 14210 of February 11, 2025 orders a government-wide workforce reduction on a one-for-four hiring ratio, but it exempts public safety, immigration enforcement and law enforcement functions from that ratio and lets agency heads exempt further positions. Executive Order 14217 of February 19, 2025 names four entities to be reduced, none of them in the Justice Department. Neither eliminates an office within the FBI, and nothing indexed touches the Office of General Counsel the chapter gives as its example or shifts staff from headquarters to field offices. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.