Pulte completes more intelligence community layoffs ahead of Clayton confirmation vote

Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Bill Pulte used what are expected to be his final hours in the role to complete a fifth round of layoffs.

Pulte said the layoffs will have resulted in a 30 percent reduction of staff at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) carried out over a tenure that lasted little more than one month.

“We are, this morning, Executing a 5th and Near Final Round of TERMINATIONS, an approximately 30% Staff Reduction from Weeks Ago. The Intelligence Community must protect the American people, NOT the political whims of the bloated and corrupt elite class,” Pulte wrote on the social platform X.

Jay Clayton, a current U.S. attorney who also served as chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission during President Trump’s first term, is expected to be confirmed as DNI.

During a Monday night procedural vote,........

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