MAGA Senators Plot to Slash Staff Under Cabinet Official Who Upset Trump

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Daily Beast

Published Jun. 27 2025 10:08AM EDT


A Republican senator is proposing a plan to slash the workforce of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, while signs of friction have emerged between President Trump and his intelligence director, Tulsi Gabbard.

The legislation proposed by Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas could diminish Gabbard’s role within the intelligence bureaucracy, according to NBC News. The ODNI reduction plan comes after Gabbard is reported to have angered Trump during his attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities in Iran.

Cotton’s bill, the Intelligence Community Efficiency and Effectiveness Act, proposes to slash ODNI’s workforce by 60 percent, from roughly 1,600 to a cap of 650 employees. ODNI, set up in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, oversees all 18 intelligence services in the United States.

The bill would also eliminate the Foreign Malign Influence Center—the hub tracking Russian and other foreign interference in the U.S. It would also shift a counterterrorism center to the FBI and hand a biosecurity and proliferation center to the CIA, according to NBC News. Under the legislation, ODNI would also be stripped of its specialized “centers” altogether, including a climate security advisory council.

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[Prairie Gates]

1. If Gabbard had an ounce of integrity she would resign in protest

You upset the King, and his minions eliminate over half your staff? Who could work for somebody who would tolerate that?

The irony is that her statements about Iran were made in the service of Russia, and now Cotton, another Putinite trashbag, will eliminate the intelligence assets tracking Russian interference in US political processes.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. She burned her bridges everywhere

so she has been left on the island of misfit toys.

[progree]

3. I thought she did a 180: from originally saying Iran wasn't pursuing a nuclear weapon to Trump's position of weeks away

or whatever.

Too little too late? Or did I miss another U-Turn?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Loyalty to Dear Leader over Loyalty to country. . . nt

[J_William_Ryan]

5. Republicans are as unfit to govern as Trump.

Don’t anger the dictator – you’ll face retribution.

And hobble the intelligence community in the process, jeopardizing the security of the American people.

[Captain Zero]

6. She met with Hezbollah during Biden term

Numerous times.
See Rachel Maddows report within the last week on this.

Since Trump's term has started there has been a massive shuffle of Counter Intelligence reporting agencies in the US Government. Some eliminated. Some now still managed by the newly appointed 22 yr old MaGat at DNI. HE WORKS FOR Tulsi Gabbard. IMHO our counterintelligence assets of our own country are being disabled or blinded by the Trump Presidency.

[thought crime]

7. Yeah, save money. Intelligence services are useless under Trump

He just makes it up. His gut tells him exactly what is happening.

[republianmushroom]

8. Oh, my god, don't upset the orange turd.