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Kash Patel: “And that's why we're moving 500 FBI employees this year to…”

Featuring: Kash Patel, Republican | Former Chief of Staff to the Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense | National

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Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Hearing with FBI Director Kash Patel

Published | Video Starts at 1:30:54

And the reason it's there is because appropriators were brilliant enough to provide a space outside of Washington D.C. to take a geographic footprint and save money instead of rebuilding here in Washington to do it for half the cost in Alabama. And that's why we're moving 500 FBI employees this year to Huntsville, because the technical expertise they possess and we do not want to remove from. The FBI is nested in Huntsville and not Washington D.C. and in order to train the future men and women, the FBI, the dhs, the DOD, and every other intelligence agency we have, they're already asking us, when do we get to go to Redstone. (1:30:54–1:31:05)

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