FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News this week that the Bureau has redeployed more than 1,000 agents from Washington headquarters to field offices over the past 14 months while cutting roughly $300 million in spending. Patel framed the move as a return to the FBI’s core mission, with fewer staff focused on D.C. paperwork and more on real cases in American communities. Critics inside the federal workforce have grumbled about the disruption, but supporters say it is exactly what voters elected this Administration to deliver.