WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Kash Patel pledged Thursday to make the bureau’s mission “work on whatever budget we’re given,” striking a different tone from comments a day earlier in which he called for the agency to be funded at far higher levels than what the Trump administration had proposed.

FBI Director Kash Patel said the Trump administration’s own budget request wouldn’t be sufficient to fund the agency, asking appropriators to reject a more than $500 million proposed cut in

The Trump administration's proposed FBI budget cuts 5 percent from current funding levels, and Director Kash Patel told lawmakers he's working to explain why the agency needs