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Kash Patel: “The budget request that we put in The FBI was 11.2 billion…”

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 49:40

Are you going to restore that half billion? You're going to request destroying that half billion dollars? Well, as I said, I'm not the budget expert, but we. The budget request that we put in The FBI was 11.2 billion, I believe. And we are working through the appropriations process and the OMB process and the skinny budget that we receive to work with y' all to help us get to a number. (49:40–49:46)

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