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Kash Patel: “While everybody thinks the FBI has 38,000 employees, we do…”

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 1:14:31

Yeah, very Quickly, just In the last three years, the FBI has, through budget cuts and CRS left vacant 1,000 permissions approximately every year. So right now, While everybody thinks the FBI has 38,000 employees, we do, on the books. We don't have 38,000 humans. So year over year, those cuts have led to book attrition. And in order to get some of those back and some of those vacant slots back, we need to actually fund them. (1:14:31–1:14:38)

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Asserts that the FBI's actual workforce is less than the official count of 38,000.

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