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?”
Nice shout-out, bro. But one of the most powerful manifestations of the class war as it exists in the US is racism, so it’s hard (maybe futile) to try disentangling them. (Which I think you implied in your post-- I’m writing this more as clarification for other readers than as a reply to you).
Yes agreed, non whites suffer from racism and structural inequality no doubt and have it harder. I had actually read the other person’s post wrong - they had meant that poor was covering all poor of any color. I had thought they were adding up the descriptors to describe one subset (poor and disabled and non white)