The budget numbers presented to the FBI Director wasn’t happy with?….
Came from the TRUMP people ….
They want to cut the Federal Bureau’s budjet by a half Billion Dollars….
Patel was fighting for HIS Bureau….
But?
Someone must have taken him in a room and said to him?
You ARE Trump’s FBI Director…..
We want you to NOT embrass your boss….
Take the hit….
Petel also seems to be clueless about HOW he supposted to deal with Congress on his budget request….
(Congress could give him more money anyways…But he HAS to present a plan for keeping his money level the same as last year…He hasn’t so far)
FBI Director Kash Patel appears to be backtracking on comments he made earlier this week that the Trump administration’s 2026 budget request was insufficient for the agency, telling senators Thursday that the FBI would “make the mission work on whatever budget we’re given.”
“My view is that we will make and agree with this budget as it stands and make it work for the operational necessity of the FBI,” Patel told members of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee Thursday.
“As the head of the FBI, I was simply asking for more funds because I can do more with more money,” he added, referring to comments he made at a House hearing just one day before, during which he told members that he wanted more for the agency than what the Trump administration asked for in the president’s fiscal 2026 budget request.
In the presidential budget request released last Friday, the administration notes a proposed cut of $545 million as part of an effort to “reform and streamline the FBI.” Trump administration officials say the request was aimed at “cutting FBI D.C. overhead and preserving existing law enforcement officers,” as well as tackling what it described as “weaponization” within the agency.
Under a funding bill passed in March, Congress agreed to fund the government at mostly fiscal 2024 levels, which allowed for more than $10.6 billion in funding for the FBI. Congress has also made additional funding available to the agency in previous stopgap legislation.
But during his hearing before House Appropriations members on Wednesday, Patel drew headlines when he said he actually proposed more than $11 billion for the agency for fiscal 2026, while being grilled by Democrats for a budget request from the administration that runs about half a billion dollars below current funding levels for the FBI….
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Patel also faced heat from Democrats for not providing a spend plan for the FBI for fiscal 2026.
“The spend plan is required by law. It was due to Congress over a week ago. We have not yet seen it. That is really absurd,” Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said. “The FBI is our nation’s leading law enforcement agency.”…
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“And your answer is you just understand, you’re not going to follow the law?” Murray asked.
“My answer is that I am following the law, and I’m working with my interagency partners to do this and get you the budget that you are required to have,” he said…..
Note….
This IS a prime example of why President’s before this one would NOT gert rid of those support people Agency and Dedpartment heads NEED to get things actually done…..
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