Senate Republicans are poised to help pass a massive spending bill that includes billions of dollars more for the FBI.
This is despite a recent whistleblower disclosure, reported exclusively by The Washington Times, that bureau management in Washington pressured its agents around the country to hide the number of hours they spent on the Jan. 6 investigation and inflate time spent on other cases.
According to the anonymous whistleblower, the scheme’s purpose was to boost the FBI’s budget requests to Congress and the year-end spending bill shows the bureau is getting over and above what it received in fiscal year 2022.