2026-06-03T21:50:28.863Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
- 比尔·普尔特尔被任命为代理国家情报总监一事，就连共和党人都对其缺乏相关从业经验提出了批评。
- 但这对特朗普而言未必是反常之举，这位总统一向将忠诚度置于专业能力之上。
- 不妨看看普尔特尔与特朗普其他几批资质存疑的任命相比表现如何。
本文由AI生成摘要，并经CNN编辑审核。
唐纳德·特朗普总统似乎又做出了一项最冒险的内阁任命：将38岁的联邦住房金融局局长比尔·普尔特尔提拔为代理国家情报总监。
就连许多共和党人都对这一任命提出质疑或批评，常常指出他完全没有任何可被察觉的情报领域从业经验。
得克萨斯州联邦参议员约翰·科宁表示，他“没有任何证据”证明普尔特尔具备任职资格。阿拉斯加州联邦参议员丽莎·默科夫斯基称，她对普尔特尔的任命感到困惑。路易斯安那州联邦参议员比尔·卡西迪指出，普尔特尔“显然不具备任职资质”。参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩则较为含蓄地表示，在国家情报总监这一职位上，“我们需要专业人士坐镇”。周二，图恩和参议院情报委员会主席汤姆·卡顿都拒绝为普尔特尔的经验水平背书。
这对特朗普而言多少算是常规操作，他一向将忠诚度置于专业能力之上，似乎极少重视专家意见。他经常任命不具备内阁职位或其他高层职位所需传统从业经验的人选。
尽管如此，即便放在特朗普的任命阵容中，普尔特尔极度缺乏相关经验的情况依然十分突出。
那么该如何进行比较？以下是部分竞争对手的排名，综合考量了官员的经验水平以及该职位通常要求的经验水平，按从高到低排序。
当达菲这位前威斯康星州国会议员在2024年末被任命为交通部长时，《国会山报》报道称，他“几乎没有任何交通领域相关经验”。
他在该议题上的立法工作通常仅限于其家乡州的特定项目。2019年离开国会后，他成为福克斯商业新闻频道的主持人。
交通部长缺乏相关经验并非闻所未闻。2020年乔·拜登任命皮特·布蒂吉格担任该职位时，有人指出布蒂吉格的交通相关经验主要是作为印第安纳州中型城市南本德的市长负责当地交通事务。
（尽管知名度不高，但布蒂吉格不久前刚赢得2020年艾奥瓦州民主党总统核心小组会议支持，并在新罕布什尔州初选中获得第二名。）
查韦斯-德里默在2024年末被任命为劳工部长时，她获得该职位的主要优势似乎是作为国会中少数几位支持某些有影响力工会支持的立法的共和党议员之一。
作为众议院教育与劳工委员会成员，她确实曾在一定程度上涉及劳工政策议题。但她仅任职一届便连任失败，在此之前她是俄勒冈州一个约2.5万人口小镇的市长。
麦克马洪在特朗普首届政府期间担任小企业管理局局长，拥有政府工作经验。
但她最为人熟知的身份还是职业摔跤高管。与近年来几乎所有其他教育部长——他们大多曾担任教师、学校行政人员或在教育领域从事过相关工作——相比，她的教育领域从业经验十分有限。
麦克马洪曾在圣心大学董事会任职，并在2010年竞选美国参议院开启政治生涯前，以任命官员身份在康涅狄格州教育委员会任职一年。
在接受教育委员会职位审查期间，麦克马洪曾 falsely 声称自己拥有教育学学士学位，但据2010年《哈特福德报》报道，她的实际学位是法语专业。尽管该专业的课程设置旨在培养教师，但并非教育学学位。（麦克马洪曾表示，她曾致信当时的康涅狄格州州长澄清此事。）
如今教育部官网关于麦克马洪的简介仍称，她“渴望成为一名教师的大学志向，体现了她对教育的毕生兴趣”。
当然，特朗普对教育部的日常运作几乎毫无兴趣；事实上，他一直致力于解散该部门。
4. 卫生与公众服务部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪
肯尼迪被任命时，许多人指出他既非医生也非科学家。但这实际上是卫生与公众服务部长职位的常见情况。
不过，该职位通常会任命具备政府工作经验或管理大型组织经验的人士。
而肯尼迪在医疗健康议题上的参与，主要涉及非主流的营养和健康生活观点——这些观点在许多美国人中有大量拥趸——最引人注目的是，他多年来一直宣扬已被揭穿的质疑疫苗安全性的言论。
2024年末特朗普令华盛顿震惊地短暂提名盖兹担任司法部长时，这位前佛罗里达州国会议员面临诸多问题。其中一个重大问题便是他缺乏实际的法律执业经验。
盖兹从未担任过检察官，通过律师资格考试三年后进入政坛前，仅在一家小型律师事务所从事过几年低调工作。
当被问及盖兹是否具备必要的经验和品格时，爱达荷州共和党联邦众议员迈克·辛普森 reportedly 回应道：“你是在逗我吗？你居然会问这个问题？当然不具备！但见鬼的是，你要是把这话登出来，我就要被调查了。”
赫格斯思是一名退伍军人，在成为福克斯周末节目主持人之前，曾运营两家保守派退伍军人组织。
但他从未担任过高级军事职务，从未在政府任职，也从未管理过比小型非营利组织更大的机构。
对于这个负责监管130万现役军人和约75万文职人员、堪称联邦政府第二大职位的岗位而言，他的履历显得格外单薄。
当特朗普发动对伊朗的战争时，这一职位的重要性愈发凸显，而如今赫格斯思正负责相关事务。
在去年加入特朗普政府之前，普尔特尔一直在金融行业及其他领域从业，包括一家空调公司和一家清理废弃房屋的非营利组织。
他的部分经验与其在联邦住房金融局的工作相契合，该局负责监管房利美和房地美等住房相关政府实体。
但他基本上不具备历任国家情报总监的经验，这些总监即便未曾在情报机构任职，至少也有军方服役经历，或作为国会议员处理过情报相关议题。
普尔特尔的前任、即将离任的图尔西·加巴德，对该职位而言也是一个相当非常规的任命。但这位前民主党国会议员至少有军方服役经历，并曾在负责军事和军事情报的众议院委员会任职。
考虑到2004年设立国家情报总监办公室的法律规定，任何“被提名担任国家情报总监的人士都应具备广泛的国家安全专业知识”，普尔特尔缺乏相关经验的情况就显得格外引人注目。
显然他并不具备这一条件。但正如CNN周二报道的那样，这显然不是特朗普所追求的标准。
Is Bill Pulte Trump’s least-experienced Cabinet pick? He’s got lots of competition
2026-06-03T21:50:28.863Z / CNN
- Bill Pulte’s selection as acting director of national intelligence has drawn criticism from even Republicans over his lack of relevant experience.
- But it’s not necessarily an unusual choice for Trump, who values loyalty over expertise.
- See how Pulte stacks up against some of Trump’s other picks with questionable qualifications.
AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.
President Donald Trump appears to have chosen one of his diciest Cabinet picks yet, with the elevation of 38-year-old Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte to the job of acting director of national intelligence.
Even many Republicans have questioned or criticized the selection, often pointing to his lack of any discernible intelligence experience.
Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said he had “no evidence” that Pulte was qualified. Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said she was perplexed by Pulte’s selection. Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana cited Pulte’s “absence of apparent qualifications.” Senate Majority Leader John Thune more subtly cited how, in the role of DNI, “we need professionals there.” And both Thune and Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Tom Cotton on Tuesday declined to vouch for Pulte’s level of experience.
This is somewhat par for the course for Trump, who emphasizes loyalty over expertise and often seems to have little regard for experts. He’s regularly picked people without the traditional types of experience expected in a Cabinet position or other high-profile job.
Still, Pulte’s striking lack of experience stands out, even among Trump picks.
So how does he compare? Here’s a ranking of some of the competition, factoring in both the officials’ level of experience and the level of experience someone in the job has typically had — in descending order.
When Duffy, a former Wisconsin congressman, was tapped for the position in late 2024, Roll Call reported that his “experience does not include much in the way of transportation.”
His legislating on the issue was generally limited to projects that were specific to his home state. After leaving Congress in 2019, he became a host on Fox Business Network.
It’s not unheard of for transportation secretaries to have limited relevant experience. When Joe Biden tapped Pete Buttigieg for that job in 2020, it was noted that Buttigieg’s transportation experience mostly involved overseeing local travel issues as mayor of mid-sized South Bend, Indiana.
(Despite that low profile, Buttigieg had recently won the 2020 Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses and finished second in the New Hampshire primary.)
When Chavez-DeRemer was selected in late 2024, her chief asset for the job seemed to be that she was one of few Republicans in Congress who had supported legislation that certain influential unions liked.
She did deal somewhat with labor policy as a member of the House Education and Workforce Committee. But she lost reelection after serving only one term, and before that she was mayor of an Oregon town of about 25,000 people.
McMahon had government experience from the first Trump administration as head of the Small Business Administration.
But she’s otherwise mostly known as a professional wrestling executive. And she had limited education experience, compared to virtually every other recent education secretary – who often worked as teachers, school administrators or otherwise in the education field.
McMahon served on the board of trustees at Sacred Heart University, and she served a year as an appointee on the Connecticut Board of Education before launching her political career with a 2010 run for US Senate.
While undergoing vetting for the education board position, McMahon falsely claimed she had earned a bachelor’s degree in education, when in fact it was in French, according to a 2010 Hartford Courant report. While the program was designed to prepare teachers, it wasn’t a degree in education. (McMahon has said she wrote to the Connecticut governor at the time to correct the record.)
McMahon’s bio on the Education Department’s website today cites how her “college aspirations to become a schoolteacher reflect her lifelong interest in education.”
Of course, Trump has shown little interest in the business of the Education Department; in fact, he’s aimed to dismantle it.
4. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
When Kennedy was chosen, plenty noted that he wasn’t a doctor or a scientist. But that’s actually pretty normal for the HHS secretary.
Still, the job usually goes to someone with experience in government or running a large organization.
And Kennedy’s involvement in health and medical issues largely involved heterodox views on nutrition and healthy living — views that have significant appeal with many Americans — and, most notably, many years of debunked claims questioning the safety of vaccines.
The former Florida congressman had many problems when Trump shocked Washington by briefly nominating him for attorney general in late 2024. But one of the big ones was his lack of experience actually practicing law.
Gaetz had never served as a prosecutor, and he spent only a few years in a low-profile job at a small law firm before entering politics three years after passing the bar exam.
When asked if Gaetz had the necessary experience and character, Republican Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho reportedly responded: “Are you sh***in’ me, that you just asked that question? No! But hell, you’ll print that and now I’m going to be investigated.”
Hegseth is a military veteran who ran a pair of conservative veterans’ groups before becoming a Fox weekend host.
But he had never served in a senior military role, never served in government and never ran anything larger than a small nonprofit.
It was a remarkably thin resume for someone taking on perhaps the second-biggest job in the federal government, overseeing 1.3 million active-duty troops and about 750,000 civilians.
The size of the job became even clearer when Trump launched a war against Iran, which Hegseth now oversees.
Before joining the Trump administration last year, Pulte spent a career in the finance sector and various other pursuits, including an air conditioning company and a nonprofit that cleared abandoned homes.
Some of that experience makes sense for his job at the FHFA, which regulates housing-related government entities like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
But he has basically none of the experience of past DNIs, who, even if they didn’t serve in the intelligence community, at least served in the military or worked on intelligence issues as a member of Congress.
Pulte’s predecessor, the soon-to-depart Tulsi Gabbard, was a somewhat unorthodox pick for the post. But the former Democratic congresswoman at least had military experience and served on House committees focused on the military and military intelligence.
Pulte’s lack of relevant experience is especially remarkable given the 2004 law establishing the Office of the Director of National Intelligence says that anyone “nominated for appointment as Director of National Intelligence shall have extensive national security expertise.”
He clearly does not have that. But as CNN reported Tuesday, that’s apparently not what Trump is looking for.
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