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Attorney General Pam Bondi has moved from her Washington, D.C., apartment to housing on a military base in the capital region after receiving threats to her life, according to multiple reports.
The relocation occurred within the past month after federal law enforcement officials warned of threats linked to drug cartels and criticism surrounding her handling of files connected to financier Jeffrey Epstein.
A senior official said the threats against Bondi intensified following the Trump administration’s capture and arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro earlier this year.
Bondi is the latest senior official in the Trump administration to move into secure military housing in or near Washington amid rising threats from protesters, foreign adversaries, and other groups.
Other officials who have relocated to protected housing on military installations include Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and President Donald Trump’s senior domestic policy adviser Stephen Miller.
Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had also been living in government-owned housing on a military installation, while Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll and Navy Secretary John Phelan have moved to military or government residences.
It was not immediately clear how much the officials are paying for the housing. In a previous case, a spokesperson for Noem said she paid “fair-market rent” while staying in military housing.
The use of military housing by high-ranking officials is not unprecedented. During Trump’s first administration, former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo both lived in military accommodations for a period of time.
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who served under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, also lived in Navy housing in the Washington area for much of his tenure.
Congress authorized the vice president in 1974 to live at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, which had previously served as the residence of the chief of naval operations. Since then, the Navy’s top admirals have typically lived at Tingey House at the Washington Navy Yard, Newsmax reported.