Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
FBI Director James Comey warned that he may have to furlough 600 employees if Congress doesn’t restore the bureau’s budget, the Houston Press reports.
Comey also said he’d be forced to cut 3,500 jobs.
The result could be disastrous, he said, because the bureau will have a more difficult time handling investigations.
The sequestration also is preventing the FBI from hiring anyone new.
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