Thursday, May 08, 2025

Kash Patel Shows Up at Budget Hearing Without a Budget

During a Senate hearing to review the FBI's FY2026 budget request, Director Kash Patel was forced to admit that, despite the law requiring it, he had no such request ready to review.

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More: Senator Murray reminded the FBI Director that the budget request was legally required "last week," and after the director responded, she surprisedly added, "And your answer is you just understand you're not going to follow the law?"

"I am following the law, and I'm working with my interagency partners to do this and get you the budget that you are required to have," Patel explained. Then the discussion went from bad to worse, culminating in Senator Murray calling Patel's preparation for the budget hearing, without a budget, "insufficient and deeply disturbing."

MURRAY: And you have no timeline. Well, we also need a full budget request, not a single paragraph full of wild talking points that we saw with the skinny budget proposal. We're now having a budget hearing without a budget request. So, Director Patel, where is the FY 2026 budget request for the FBI?

PATEL: It's being worked on, ma'am.

MURRAY: Have you reviewed it? Have you approved it?

PATEL: But not yet.

MURRAY: When will we get it?

PATEL: As soon as I can get it from my interagency partners and get it approved.

MURRAY: Six months from now? I don't know, ma'am, I'm not going to take that time. Well, how do we, as Congress, do our budget and our work without that request and without the spent one?

PATEL: Well, ma'am, I'm here. I'm doing the best I can. I can't make up answers. I'm going to commit to you to work on getting you the information you need.

MURRAY: That is insufficient and deeply disturbing. No response.

PATEL: I've given my response.

#1 | Posted by qcp at 2025-05-08 01:11 PM

This is the type of incompetence conservatives want from the leaders of their party.

#2 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-05-08 01:21 PM

How stupid is the Trump administration?

Every day its more sheer incompetence.

And every day they outdo themselves and surprise us with how stupid and incompetent they are.

#3 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-05-08 01:28 PM

The entire administration is amateur hour.

#4 | Posted by qcp at 2025-05-08 01:33 PM

Thank you Republicans for destroying US national security.

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-08 01:34 PM

Defund The FBI!

Signed,
FBI Director Kash Patel

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-08 01:35 PM

And this figures that the first non-white to ever direct the FBI is a crass, incompetent lickspittle. Meanwhile, the FBI (which recently did a good job rounding up 205 pederasts nationwide) will be targeting NYS AG Letitia James, a woman from a modest background who began her career as a Legal Aid defense lawyer. What a fkkking country we have now.

Source:

stefanik.house.gov

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-08 02:06 PM

Kash Patel just proved his incompetence in the most classic incompetent way.

A man who can't get a budget together, with all the resources he has to draw upon, is going to let the terrorists in.

Patel will get Americans killed.

#8 | Posted by Zed at 2025-05-08 02:55 PM

Where are all the Trump supporters to tell us why this is a good thing?

Who am I kidding? They're all on the transgenders in sports thread, because they're willing to let this country fall apart as long as 19 transgender people don't get to compete in sports.

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-05-08 03:01 PM

Kash Patel must be growing reluctant having his bodyguard detail drive him to Capitol Hill where he gets grilled by the adults in the room: drudge.com

#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-08 03:04 PM

"The dog ate my Budget work!"

Is unsurprising considering the source.

#11 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-08 03:40 PM

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