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Kash Patel: “Every Single State gets a plus up, Mr. Chairman. We have 55…”

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 34:39

And I believe we can get there. In your plan to move positions from Washington D.C. to field offices totally in the country, how many changes will you see? Locations. Every Single State gets a plus up, Mr. Chairman. We have 55 field offices, a little over 300 resident agencies covering down and some large swaths of geography like the Dakotas and Montana and Idaho region. which don't themselves have a. What we call a special agent in charge. But covering down on this plus up allows us not to just send agents and intel analysts … (34:39–34:51)

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