Kash Patel

So while you're bringing in the right people, you also have to shrink government.

So a massive government reform.

Yeah.

And you've got to work with Congress to eliminate the billets.

This is one of the things we did when I was deputy DNI.

We got to DNI and I was like, okay, what do all these people do?

We've got the CIA, so why do I have analysts doing the CIA's job here?

Why do I have a floor of them?

Like, give me a good answer.

I don't know everything.

I don't know a lot.

But if you can give me an answer that satisfies their existence, I'm all in.

Well, we just have our own people.

Okay, well, now we don't.

And we went to Congress and zeroed out a bunch of billets, and they hated us for it.

Not Congress, the public.

Congress is like, great, you saved us money.

You're the only agency that returned money this year because we didn't spend our entire budget.

We were literally funding seats with no humans in them for years.

And what the government creep that I was talking about is these agencies go to Congress every year.