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Kash Patel: “Well, unlike, unlike Congressman Strong and Redstone, I…”

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 1:42:52

And then you mentioned, and there is, there's a thousand acres out there at cedis. It's quite large. Is there additional resources that you need to be able to build out there at Sieges? Well, unlike, unlike Congressman Strong and Redstone, I don't have a prior appropriation that began new building construction in omb. So we would need that. We've got the space for it, we've got the footprint for it, and we have already the manning to move into it. And what we have is aging systems that are aging out in Washington D.C. and the NCR that either would have to be upgraded here at a monumental expense or moved right out to West Virginia. And you wouldn't know this off top of your head, but perhaps you could come back to us what that number looks like in terms of being able to expand … (1:42:52–1:43:22)

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Asserts need for appropriations to build new facilities and move aging systems to West Virginia.

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