
President Trump chose Bill Pulte, the head of the mortgage regulation agency, to serve as director of national intelligence, replacing Tulsi Gabbard. Pulte is a close Trump loyalist who, according to reporting, used his FHFA post to pursue political objectives and built an unusually political profile for a financial regulator. His appointment has provoked a Senate GOP rebellion and heightened the risk that a partisan DNI could weaken internal resistance to a clean reauthorization of Section 702.
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