Could the Rocket City be the new home of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s national headquarters?

That’s a plan Republicans on Capitol Hill are pursuing, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The paper reports that House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) intends to attach a rider to strip funding for the FBI in coming appropriations bills unless it relocates to Huntsville.

This comes as the bureau is eyeing a move from its Washington, D.C. building to a suburb of the nation’s capital, in either Maryland or Virginia.

The FBI currently works out of the 50-year-old J. Edgar Hoover Building, with more than 5,000 employees, located across the street from the Justice Department’s headquarters.

According to the Journal, it’s another volley in the war going on between the FBI and Republicans who say the agency has grown too partisan in its investigations of former President Donald Trump.

The FBI, in response, said there are “numerous operational reasons” to keep the headquarters in Washington, given its proximity to the FBI academy near Quantico, Va., and other intelligence agencies.

The FBI is building what’s unofficially been described as a second headquarters at Redstone Arsenal. Federal funding for ongoing construction has already exceeded $3 billion.

Last month, FBI Director Christopher Wray told a Senate hearing that the FBI is “on track” to increase staffing from 1,800 employees now to “about 3,000″ employees.

In a statement to The Wall Street Journal, the FBI said its Huntsville campus couldn’t accommodate the minimum of 8,500 employees planned to occupy the new headquarters in Washington.

The Journal reports that Jordan argues investigators would be less likely to be infected by “liberal politics” if the bureau was located in right-leaning Alabama.