The GOP is building tangible policy recommendations around slashing the FBI's budget. Historically, those proposals have been largely unpopular.
Historically, most efforts to cut the bureau's budget have not just failed, they've failed miserably, Charles said. During J. Edgar Hoover's so-called war on the gangsters of the Prohibition Era, conservative Democratic Senator Kenneth McKellar accused the bureau of running wild with its budget before proposing a 25 percent reduction after Hoover's request for a budget increase in 1937. Hoover ultimately convinced Congress to replace the money.
Republican presidential candidate and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy holds a press conference outside of the shuttered South Shore High School on May 19, 2023, in Chicago, Illinois. Ramaswamy has outlined extensive reforms to the FBI's budget and structure if elected president.The recent rhetoric toward the bureau, however, is unprecedented, and less a product of political necessity than of grievance.
To some degree, FBI budgets—like other areas of the federal budget—have seen stark increases. After the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, real FBI spending nearly doubled from $5.25 billion 2000 to $10.44 billion by the following decade, eventually reaching its current level of $11.4 billion in 2023.
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