Trump taps housing chief Bill Pulte to run DNI, delighting MAGA but alarming intelligence community
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President Trump named Bill Pulte—head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency—as acting Director of National Intelligence, a move greeted by MAGA supporters as a rebuke to the Deep State but provoking alarm among Democrats and IC veterans about his lack of intelligence experience and the potential politicization of the DNI, with a 210-day acting tenure under the Vacancies Act and an uncertain path to Senate confirmation.
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