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FBI boss Patel faces Senate grilling, seeks $12B boost as controversies swirl

FBI Director Kash Patel is again set to testify before the Senate, this time in defense of a budget increase for his agency amid scrutiny of his performance atop the nation’s federal law enforcement arm. Patel, along with the heads of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), U.S. Marshals Service and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), is set to pitch lawmakers on President Donald Trump's budget request for their agencies on Tuesday. Their agencies fall under the Department of Justice (DOJ), which, under Trump’s funding request this year, could receive a total of nearl...