FBI director has been sounding alarm on ‘heightened threat environment’: Is America listening?

The FBI has increasingly warned U.S. lawmakers of the threats posed by China, an insecure border, and international terrorism? Are Americans heeding these warnings?

Connecting all of these disparate threats is the FBI’s ability to adequately address them. At a House Appropriations Subcommittee earlier this month, Wray said the FBI’s fiscal year 2024 budget was around $500 million below what the bureau needed to sustain its 2023 efforts.  "After Oct. 7 is when we went to a whole other level." "You could close your eyes and pull an industry or sector out of a hat and, chances are, Beijing has targeted it." "Let’s not forget that it didn’t take a big number of people on 9/11 to kill 3,000 people." Bradford Betz is a Fox News Digital breaking reporter covering crime, political issues, and much more. 

Wray said the budget shortfall "could not have come at a worse time" given that the U.S., according to the bureau, is in a "heightened threat environment." 

"As I look back over my career in law enforcement, I would be hard-pressed to think of a time where so many threats to public safety and national security were so elevated all at once, but that is the case as I sit here today," Wray told House lawmakers.