FBI Director Kash Patel made the case to House lawmakers during a hearing on Wednesday that the bureau needed an operating budget that is roughly a billion dollars more than what President Donald Trump has proposed.

FBI Director Kash Patel told lawmakers on Wednesday that a White House budget proposal that slashes funding for federal law enforcement agencies was about $1 billion below what the bureau had sought,

The White House is planning on Friday to unveil President Donald Trump's 2026 budget, a sweeping framework that is expected to propose steep reductions, if not a wholesale zeroing out, of various federal programs as part of his administration's priorities.