Attorney General Pam Bondi said that the Trump administration can consolidate federal gun and drug enforcement agencies without congress’s sign-off, after at least two senior Republican Senate appropriators objected to the merger Wednesday.
“We don’t need congressional action for this move,” Bondi told a Senate appropriations panel about the Trump administration’s plan to combine the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives with the Drug Enforcement Administration.
She later added that Congress does need to “appropriate the funds for our reorganization” to place ATF and DEA “under one umbrella” in an exchange with Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) about congressional ...
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