WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Kash Patel pledged Thursday to make the bureau’s mission “work on whatever budget we’re given,” striking a different tone from comments a day earlier in which he called for the agency to be funded at far higher levels than what the Trump administration had proposed.

Indian-origin director of the FBI, Kash Patel, who came on the radar for his misuse of FBI jets for personal use, recently showed his independence as he complained that the administration allocated too small a budget for the FBI.