Patel denies report claiming mass workforce cuts coming to ATF

Published March 25, 2025 9:18am ET



FBI Director Kash Patel denied a report claiming he wanted to overhaul the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. 

On Saturday, a CNN report citing three anonymous sources alleged that Patel, the acting director of ATF, had outlined plans to transfer up to 1,000 ATF agents to the FBI, “cutting ATF’s agents by more than a third.”

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