New FBI Director Kash Patel was sworn in Monday as acting chief of the federal bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, taking the helm of two separate and sprawling Justice Department agencies,

Newly-sworn in FBI Director Kash Patel will be tapped to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as acting director, according to sources.

New FBI Director Kash Patel is expected to be named the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a Justice Department official said Saturday.

Patel will be responsible for two sprawling agencies at the Justice Department. ATF alone has 5,500 personnel.

Kash Patel will lead both the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) after he was charged to head both by President Donald Trump.

Trump to name new FBI Director Kash Patel as ATF head - Conservatives have long criticized ATF for being over regulatory of firearms

Patel is set to lead an agency that's been a frequent target of Republicans, including an effort to abolish it altogether.

FBI Director Kash Patel has been appointed as the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) in a historic move placing him in charge of two major federal law enforcement agencies simultaneously.

Bondi, in an extensive Fox News interview, provided details of the ongoing and apparently widening political purge of the Justice Department and FBI.

FBI Director Kash Patel will be tapped to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), two sources confirmed to Fox News Digital on Saturday.

Newly sworn-in FBI Director Kash Patel is expected to take the reins of another federal law enforcement agency as the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Patel will now oversee the bureau of roughly 5,500 employees that's responsible for enforcing the nation’s laws around firearms, explosives and arson.