"On the eve of the hearing, Democrats from the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Patel demanding a "full accounting" for why such changes were made and asked the bureau to provide "the number of applicants hired, extended conditional offers, or placed under case-by-case review since June 16, 2026, whose files would previously have been automatically disqualified, broken out by category of conduct."
Lawmakers on Tuesday from both sides of the aisle repeatedly grilled Patel over the decision, with most of them primarily focusing their questions on the changes related to acts of bestiality."
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