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?”
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.
Why aren’t we deporting this law breaker?
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.
My dog ate the budget!
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
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
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!
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.
Can’t imagine how you’d expect an idiot like Kash Patel to do anything right at all.
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.
He kept repeating he’s following the law as if he could just make it up as he goes along. Such an absolute turd.
Well yeah, what did you expect from a partisan, incompetent fuckwit?
He’s like the kid who is trying to do a book report presentation on a book he didn’t even read.