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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    20 hours ago

    …yeah. Honestly, this is simultaneously disturbing and encouraging.

    On one hand, Random Joe is more competent than Trump Regime officials. On the other, Rebellious Joe is more competent than Fascist officials. It is weird for the venn diagram to be a circle like this.