Republicans on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies on Friday advanced legislation to reduce funding for the FBI by $1 billion.
The committee advanced the 9% budget cut in a party line vote, the Washington Examiner reported. The bureau’s 2024 budget would fall from $11.3 billion in 2023 to $10.3 billion under the plan.
It would further require the FBI to conduct politically sensitive investigations under the oversight of a bipartisan group of Department of Justice staff while also forbidding the bureau from withholding the salaries of its whistleblowers.