Trump teases cuts at ODNI under Pulte

President Donald Trump would welcome incoming acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte’s cutting the intelligence community’s workforce. “I wouldn’t mind if he cut,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Friday.
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