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Kash Patel: “We can't do the mission on those 2011 budget levels.”

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 48:20

Ma' am, at this time, we have not looked at who to Cut. We are focusing our energies on how not to have them cut by coming in here and highlighting to you that We can't do the mission on those 2011 budget levels. And so what we're focusing on is right now is working with our partners in ombuds, the appropriators, to say that we cannot cover down on the mission at the … (48:20–48:25)

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Asserts that the FBI cannot operate effectively on 2011 budget levels.

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