FBI Director Kash Patel reversed course on May 8 and said that he can make do with the cut the Trump administration has proposed to the bureau.
“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,” he told the Senate Appropriations Committee.
“As the head of the FBI, I was simply asking for more funds because I can do more with more money.”
Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), a committee member, told Patel that he is “concerned that the scale of the proposed reduction could force the FBI to eliminate vacant positions and leave positions unfilled.”…