Despite Objections, Pulte Slated to Become Acting DNI Today
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Bill Pulte during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., February 27, 2025.(Annabelle Gordon/Reuters)
Today is slated to be the effective date of President Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte, his director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as acting director of national intelligence. Pulte will keep the former position while, in the latter, replacing Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s Senate-confirmed DNI, who is stepping down.
As I explained earlier this week, the president, in what is apt to be a futile attempt to pressure Congress to enact voter-ID restrictions into federal election law, has withdrawn the nomination of Jay Clayton, currently his U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York (in Manhattan), to become DNI. This ...
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