“I’d like to see it smaller. I think there are a lot of people in there that shouldn’t be there,” Trump said of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) in an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Friday.
The office was created by an act of Congress in 2004, in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, to better coordinate intelligence sharing. The DNI produces the President’s Daily Brief, a highly classified document containing contributions from all intelligence agencies presented to the president each morning. At the start of President Trump’s second term, the DNI had roughly 1,800 employees.
Trump has frequently undermined U.S. intelligence agencies throughout his first and second terms. Perhaps his most notable clash came when he sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the assessment of U.S. intelligence that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Trump.
“We look forward to working with Mr. Pulte and President Trump to continue that work and advance further initiatives aimed at rooting out deep state bad actors and securing saving for the American taxpayer,” the official said.
Members of Congress fear a politicized DNI
Some members of Congress have expressed worry over a similarly politically weaponized DNI.
Other Republican lawmakers, however, have celebrated the potential for downsizing the office. “President Trump is right: the ODNI has grown far beyond its original mandate,” Republican Sen. Tom Cotton wrote on X.
Trump defended Pulte’s lack of national intelligence experience, saying it could be good for him to “shake it up.”
He also told reporters on Thursday that Pulte might investigate “the rigged elections”, hours after he claimed on social media without evidence that Democrats were cheating in California’s primaries this week.
“We’ve made the Department of Education much smaller, and likewise, this should be much smaller,” Trump said, suggesting that the DNI could also eventually be “terminated”.
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