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Kash Patel: “I would be forced to remove an additional 1300 employees if…”

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 1:18:04

I don't believe I fired anybody. No one has been let go. But you. You could be firing up to. How many? I could. If the. I would be forced to remove an additional 1300 employees if we go along with the budget that's out. Right. So that's where the $545 million in cuts would come from. Right. And just real quick, so a large portion of that also, people ask why we didn't. (1:18:04–1:18:13)

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