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Trump’s Acting DNI Begins Making Steep Personnel Cuts to Office

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Cotton said Pulte told him that only “a small handful of front-office personnel” were leaving, “which is not at all uncommon when a senior leader leaves an agency or one comes into an agency. ”

Advertisement He also said the 40 to 50 career officers were simply being sent back to their home agencies

He also said the 40 to 50 career officers were simply being sent back to their home agencies.

“I think that’s a step in the right direction,” Cotton said on the Senate floor.

Advertisement Cotton has long supported reducing the size of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Last year, he introduced legislation that would limit the agency’s full-time workforce to 650 employees.

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