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Sens. Hawley, Blackburn Propose Massive Relocation of Federal Departments, Agencies

WASHINGTON—Two freshmen Republican senators want to relocate 10 major federal departments out of the nation’s capital to “economically distressed” regions of the country.

The senators are Josh Hawley of Missouri and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, and their proposal is known as the “Helping Infrastructure Restore the Economy Act of 2019″ (HIRE).

Proposals for moving parts of the federal establishment out of Washington have been around for decades, but the HIRE approach is an entirely new one—put these government operations with their hundreds of thousands of jobs and multibillion-dollar payrolls in areas of the country that need economic boosts.

Helping grow the economy where it’s most needed would be reason enough to make the move, according to the senators, but they also argue that there would also be huge additional benefits in the bargain.

“Every year, Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars fund federal agencies that are mainly located in the D.C. bubble,” Hawley said in a statement accompanying the release of the proposal.

“That’s a big part of the problem with Washington, they are too removed from the rest of America. The 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.”

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