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WASHINGTON – FBI Director Kash Patel pledged Thursday to marque the bureau's ngo “work connected immoderate fund we're given,” striking a antithetic code from comments a time earlier successful which helium called for the bureau to beryllium funded astatine acold higher levels than what the Trump medication had proposed.
The 2026 fund connection released connected Friday calls for a backing chopped of astir $545 cardinal for the FBI arsenic portion of what the White House said was a tendency to “reform and streamline” the bureau and trim “non-law enforcement missions that bash not align” with the priorities of President Donald Trump
He told lawmakers astatine a House Appropriations subcommittee proceeding connected Wednesday that the FBI needs “more than what has been proposed” and "can’t bash the ngo connected those 2011 fund levels.”
But connected Thursday, appearing astatine a abstracted proceeding of the Senate Appropriations Committee, helium took a antithetic stance erstwhile asked by Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland astir his earlier grounds that the FBI required substantially much wealth to run what the Trump fund program had called for.
“My presumption is that we hold with this fund arsenic it stands and (will) marque it enactment for the operational necessity of the FBI, and arsenic the caput of the FBI, I was simply asking for much funds due to the fact that I tin bash much with much money,” helium said.
He added that helium would “make the ngo enactment connected immoderate fund we're given.”
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