Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said that “the minority has exercised their right and my right under the committee rules to hold over the nomination of Kash Patel to lead the FBI.”
Shortly after convening Thursday morning, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee moved to place a hold on Patel, with Chairman Chuck Grassley acknowledging that “the minority has exercised their right and my right under the committee rules to hold over the nomination of Kash Patel to lead the FBI.”
During Patel’s confirmation hearing last week, the FBI director-designate vowed to restore public trust in law enforcement by cutting in half US drug deaths, homicides and rapes, saying he would “make sure we don’t have 100,000 rapes in this country next year, make sure we don’t have 100,000 drug overdoses from Chinese fentanyl and Mexican heroin, and make sure we don’t have 17,000 homicides.
In contrast to other cabinet officials, like White House budget director nominee Russ Vought, Patel did not state that the FBI should be “Before working in the first Trump administration, Patel served as a public defender in Florida for 12 years and as a trial attorney at the Justice Department from 2014 to 2017.Pressed by Sen.
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