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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?”

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[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You are thinking of someone else, this is the guy who writes deranged children's books where Trump is the king.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

"flood the space" is their goal. Hit you with 1,000 shit things, and hope 100 stick. We will miss a lot. Banon said it is was their goal and they cherish it. Problem is that if they were opposed by such an enemy they would say there is one solution, end them. Most everyone in this country left of MAGA is against slaughtering criminals. Hence the criminal and his thugs in the white house. A man who commits 32 felonies is looked at by a base as better than a person who commits 1 misdemeanor. The misdemeanor, trying to exist, the felonies, stealing from the banks we paid out of pocket to bail out of bankruptcy. The "criminals" paid 94 billion in taxes or some shit in 2022, we are paying more than that to remove them from this country, to get no returns. 94 billion is more than we paid out defense companies to build new weapons to replace old weapons we wanted to retire and sent to Ukraine to defend against our worst enemy for the entirety of our existence. Not even 2% of our defense budget went towards it. Yet the most senile old man that has ever stepped foot in the white house is ordering us to stop following up sanctions on the people HE OWES MONEY too.

Make America Great Again should clearly mean to remove him from the white house, as well as Johnson and Vance. Tax the rich and actually build back the middle class. Anyone who believes in capitalism should never believe in Johnson