July 29, 2026

Acting DNI Bill Pulte is slashing again — this time another 30 percent off the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, a move that could wipe out more than 300 jobs and deepen the shakeup of the spy bureaucracy. The cut lands as the Senate is set to vote on his full-time successor, Jay Clayton, and follows Tulsi Gabbard’s earlier claim that she already chopped ODNI by roughly 40 percent. The message from Washington is blunt: the intel establishment is being forced to shrink, fast.

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