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"provider_name": "Action Network",
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"author_name": "Demand Progress",
"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/groups/demand-progress-3",
"title": "Investigate Kash Patel's flagrant misuse of taxpayer funds!",
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"description": "Kash Patel is using our tax dollars as his personal piggy bank.1 The FBI Director flew with his girlfriend on a government jet to Philadelphia to watch a concert from a luxury suite that costs $35 - 50K.2 He flew to the Olympics to drink beer and party with the U.S. hockey team.3 He even took a "VIP snorkel" trip to one of the military’s most hallowed sites, the underwater tomb of the U.S.S. Arizona at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.4 Congress must investigate and stop Patel's personal travel on the taxpayer dime. Tell Congress: Investigate FBI Director Kash Patel’s flagrant abuse of government funds for personal trips! The catalogue of these trips is long. Patel used a government jet to fly to central Pennsylvania to attend a wrestling event where his girlfriend was singing the national anthem, then to her home in Nashville.5 He used government resources during the government shutdown to fly to a luxury resort in Texas owned by the family of a MAGA donor.6 He's flown to NHL hockey games and UFC events, and more. Patel has even assigned his girlfriend a government security detail — an act unprecedented at the FBI.7 Patel, like so many in the self-serving Trump administration, think they can use the people's tax dollars to do whatever they want. Our lawmakers must reject this corruption and hold the FBI director accountable! Tell Congress: Investigate Kash Patel’s taxpayer-funded trips! Sources: New York Times, "Snorkeling at Pearl Harbor: Kash Patel's Travels Add to Focus on Ethical Issues," May 15, 2026. Ibid. PBS, "Olympics trip raises questions about Patel's use of taxpayer dollars," February 23, 2026. New York Times, "Snorkeling at Pearl Harbor: Kash Patel's Travels Add to Focus on Ethical Issues," May 15, 2026. The Wall Street Journal, "Kash Patel’s ‘Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director,” November 11, 2025. Ibid. MS Now, "Kash Patel’s girlfriend being protected by FBI SWAT agents as security perk,” November 17, 2025.",
"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/investigate-kash-patels-flagrant-misuse-of-taxpayer-funds"
}