House GOP Trying To Cut $1B In FBI Funding
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House Republicans are looking to cut funding to the FBI.
A House Republican subcommittee advanced legislation that would cut $1 billion in funding.
The Washington Examiner reported:
A House Republican subcommittee advanced legislation on Friday that would cut funding for the FBI by $1 billion, and decrease overall funding for related agencies to 2022 levels.
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies approved the bill, which includes a 9% cut in funding for the FBI, in a party-line vote. Included in the $1 billion cut is a $400 million decrease in FBI salaries and related expenses, and new spending limitations on the bureau.
The FBI’s budget under the new legislation would drop from $11.3 billion in the current fiscal year to $10.3 billion in 2024.
Other key components of the bill include a ban on the bureau investigating politically sensitive cases without a bipartisan staff in the Justice Department overseeing it. The move is part of the Right’s aim at limiting the alleged politicization of the FBI, which Republicans have claimed has targeted conservatives, while not leading full investigations of people such as Hunter Biden.
FBI Director Christopher Wray was grilled by Republicans during his testimony on Wednesday.
House Judiciary Committee Republicans grilled FBI Director Christopher Wray in a hearing Wednesday, raising issues they have long been investigating related to alleged civil liberties violations by the government.
The hearing, which typically occurs annually as part of congressional oversight, marked the first time Wray has testified since House Republicans took over, allowing them to publicly confront the director with their contentions that the bureau has unfairly targeted conservatives.
Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) opened his remarks by listing out a number of allegations and quoting findings from a recent and sweeping federal court opinion out of Louisiana that found “substantial evidence” of government censorship, including by the FBI, via social media companies.
“Here’s what’s truly unbelievable. Here’s what’s amazing,” Jordan said. “The Justice Department and the FBI want the taxpayers they censored, the parents they labeled, the Catholics they called radicals, they want them to pay for a new FBI headquarters and they want FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] reauthorization of the 702 form in its current form. … I mean you can’t make this stuff up.”
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