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.
This surprising development came during an awkward back-and-forth with Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the ranking Democrat and Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which oversees and approves budget requests.
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?”
In the photo, the fucker looks like a little kid who didn’t do his homework and got caught in the lie.
Hardly the brightest and the best.
I feel like he always looks like that. He always looks like he’s guilty and looking for an exit or coming up with the next lie. I can’t imagine living like that
I’m going to guess drugs or alcohol.
My dog ate the budget!
Why aren’t we deporting this law breaker?
Who is “we”?
I’m not deporting people to foreign concentration camps for “breaking the law” because that’s extremely wrong.
As far as the fash, they don’t deport their own… yet.
Well yeah, what did you expect from a partisan, incompetent fuckwit?
Can’t imagine how you’d expect an idiot like Kash Patel to do anything right at all.
His name is Kash but he doesn’t have any…
This is what mediocrity looks like
Mendacity.
He knew. He didn’t care. He just put out his hand and dared the Senate not to give him a blank check.
And he’s going to get that check, because Democrats more are terrified of looking obstructionist than of looking like they can govern.
I’m going to upvote just from the great usage of the word Mendacity
Soooooo, zero budget for the FBI then.
No, they get a contigency budget of 20 bucks and this pallet of expired lunchables.
Pallet of Mr. Beast Lunchly
Sorry, due to ‘gestures vaguely’ whatever, they’re expired, moldy Feastables, brought to you By Mr Beast Burger
Those expired lunchables will be worth a fortune when there’s nothing left at walmart!
Does that mean they won’t be able to notice people organizing against the Trump administration? Or is ICE the new FBI (do they have the capabilities)?
They’re already trying their best to ignore it.
By organizing, I mean to do things that would materially affect economic life, such as strikes, mass protests, road blockades etc.
How does worsening economics help defeat Trump? His campaign was basically only things that destroy the economy and he is following through on it.
His campaign are things that destroy the economy for the majority, not for the oligarchs that surround him. The oligarchs live off the labour of the many. Americans need to deny these oligarchs their labour.
So then shouldnt any effective economic protest/sabotage be specifically targeting thise oligarchs and not the broad general populace?
There’s no way to avoid the latter for large scale protests. Strikes are the most effective form of protest known to humanity and obviously cause some disruption. But on top of that, they could target oligarchs, say, by blockading their mansions.
President Donald Trump’s nomination of Patel to lead the FBI caused a raft of controversy. Patel had publicly pledged to take the agency down and turn its building into something of a “deep state” museum. His apparent lack of preparation for this fundamental hearing will give no solace to critics convinced he was not prepared for the task at hand.
never trust someone with a crazy eyes.
Reminds me of the Office: “I thought this was a meet and greet”.
Well this doesn’t boad well for the branch.
You let’s Tusli get away with her shit, maybe I should have fucked her too!
Exactly what I immediately thought of.
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/06a73aad-0ef6-4664-8247-25c19d84cae9
The only thing saving this country from full on state-sponsored ethnic cleansing is the fact that they keep appointing the stupidest motherfuckers imaginable to key positions or power.
Fascists gonna fasc.
Okay, so $0 for the FBI. Done!
His name is Kash but he doesn’t have any…
That’s what Trump wants. Take note of the military and ICE budgets, however…
That’s what Trump wants.
It’s win-win. Either Dems don’t sign a blank check, and Trump uses this as an excuse to hand more power to the DHS. Or Dems do sign a blank check, and Trump uses it to fund an FBI dedicated to further dismantling the democratic state.
Right now we are seeing a power struggle between at least two groups of plutocrats in the US.
The FBI is not on Trump’s side. They’re not exactly our friend, but their defunding would give more power to Trump
The FBI is not on Trump’s side.
The director of the FBI is absolutely on Trump’s side. And anyone downstream of him who isn’t is getting weeded out.
Why would he follow the law? He can get insta pardoned if the mean lawmakers act like adults.
Why would any of Trump’s administration care? None of them have been held accountable for anything, except to Trump.
The only people held to account in the US are the poor, disabled and non white.
They aren’t even held to account, they’re mostly abused for trying to survive the abuse.
Hey us poor whites get screwed over too! It’s not a race war (only) - it’s a class war.
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Yes agreed, non whites suffer from racism and structural inequality no doubt and have it harder. I had actually read the other person’s post wrong - they had meant that poor was covering all poor of any color. I had thought they were adding up the descriptors to describe one subset (poor and disabled and non white)
Yea and you’re included in the use of the term Poor. Your education system has failed you and your society has blinded you.
yeah, Trump was accountable af, given that he ia now thw president again
I meant his henchmen are accountable only to Trump, not that Trump was the only one held accountable.
my bad
He kept repeating he’s following the law as if he could just make it up as he goes along. Such an absolute turd.
