FBI Director Kash Patel told employees Friday on his first day on the job he plans to move agency jobs from Washington, D.C., to field offices around the country and to FBI Redstone Arsenal campus in Huntsville,

New FBI Director Kash Patel has told senior officials that he plans to relocate up to 1,000 employees from Washington to field offices around the country and move an additional 500 to a bureau

Patel joins the list of nominees who endured an uphill battle before finally getting confirmed. They include Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.