MAGA Senators Plot to Slash Staff Under Cabinet Official Who Upset Trump [View all]
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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