Republicans’ Big F.B.I. Cut Came From Scrapping One Senator’s Earmark
New York Times
The G.O.P. has boasted about cutting the budget of what it calls the “weaponized” F.B.I. by 6 percent. Most of that came from wiping out the pet project of retired Senator Richard C. Shelby.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/us/politics/fbi-budget-earmark.html