{"id":4374,"date":"2026-06-10T19:06:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/2026\/06\/10\/trump-says-bill-pulte-will-execute-the-immediate-downsizing-of-intelligence-community-in-temporary-role-live\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T19:06:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:06:50","slug":"trump-says-bill-pulte-will-execute-the-immediate-downsizing-of-intelligence-community-in-temporary-role-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/?p=4374","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Bill Pulte will \u2018execute the immediate downsizing\u2019 of intelligence community in temporary role \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">As <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> presses on with his contentious plan to install <strong>Bill<\/strong> <strong>Pulte<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/10\/trump-bill-pulte-intelligence-director\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">as acting director of national intelligence<\/a> on 19 June, he has reiterated that he has asked Pulte \u201cto execute the immediate and needed downsizing of the office, reverting staff to their home agencies\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In a post on Truth Social moments ago (despite being due at a bill signing), the president added: \u201cAt the same time, I am looking for a permanent ODNI Nominee with experience in National Security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He went on: \u201cI am asking Congress to send me a short-term extension of FISA to provide time for the selection and confirmation of a permanent Head of the Agency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Democratic lawmakers have said Pulte\u2019s appointment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/09\/trump-johnson-surveillance-law\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">would scuttle a bipartisan agreement<\/a> to renew section 702 of Fisa (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act), which is due to expire on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThe Radical Left Dumocrats are trying to take our National Security hostage because of unrelated issues,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Donald Trump presses on with his contentious plan to install Bill Pulte as acting director of national<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}