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特朗普表示，18个情报机构中“有很多人不该待在那里”
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两党议员反对普利特提名后，奥兹医生回应质疑
福克斯新闻资深白宫记者杰奎·海因里希在《特别报道》节目中带来了唐纳德·特朗普总统任命联邦住房金融局局长威廉·“比尔”·普利特的最新动态。
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唐纳德·特朗普总统在周五发布的接受《华尔街日报》采访时表示，他希望即将上任的代理国家情报总监（DNI）比尔·普利特“启动流程”解雇情报界官员。
特朗普于周二提名普利特接替现任国家情报总监图尔西·加巴德，加巴德已于5月辞职，原因是她的丈夫被诊断出患有罕见癌症。
普利特将于6月30日加巴德的辞职正式生效后临时接任该职位，他的任务显然是精简国家情报总监管辖的18个情报机构的员工人数。
“我希望情报机构规模更小。我认为那里有很多人不该待在那里，”特朗普在谈到情报界时告诉《华尔街日报》。
特朗普任命比尔·普利特为代理国家情报总监
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据报道，目前担任特朗普政府联邦住房金融局局长的普利特的提名激怒了众多议员，其中包括前参议院多数党领袖、南达科他州共和党人约翰·图恩，他公开批评了这一任命。
“我们不需要被武器化的国家情报总监。我们需要专业人士担任该职位，”图恩说道。
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但特朗普向《华尔街日报》解释说，正是普利特的“外行”身份让他倾向于选择普利特。
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“你受到的束缚更少，”他告诉该媒体。“这会给你更多权力，你懂的，在一段相对有限的时间内。”
周四在椭圆形办公室对记者发表讲话时，特朗普打消了人们的担忧，即如果普利特被永久任命为该职位，将难以获得参议院确认。他向公众保证，目前正在积极寻找永久继任者，而普利特的临时身份将对他有利。
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“坦率地说，在其他人上任之前，他先进行整顿可能对他有好处，”特朗普说。“因为如果他和我一起缩减机构规模……再加上可能即将上任的那个人……他可以完成很多艰巨的工作，我们就不必让刚上任的人去做那些棘手的事，”特朗普告诉《华尔街日报》。
图尔西·加巴德在共和党游说后，就有争议的情报工具改变立场
普利特同时还是房利美和房地美这两家政府支持企业（GSEs）的董事长，他已经对立法结果产生了影响。
在六名参议院共和党人与民主党人联手否决了一项重新授权《外国情报监控法》（FISA）的法案后，参议院情报委员会副主席、弗吉尼亚州民主党人马克·华纳警告称，只要普利特负责情报工作，民主党人就不会投票支持该法案的重新授权。
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“我看不出你如何获得必要的民主党票数……让他们达到60票，”华纳说道。
福克斯新闻数字频道联系了图恩领袖和华纳参议员的办公室，并联系了比尔·普利特以进一步澄清情况。
Trump green lights new DNI Pulte to ‘start the process’ on mass intelligence firings
June 5, 2026 8:45pm EDT / Fox News
Trump said there are ‘a lot of people in there that shouldn’t be there’ across the 18 intelligence agencies
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President Donald Trump says he wants incoming Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Bill Pulte to “start the process” of firing intelligence community officials, he told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published Friday.
Trump on Tuesday tapped Pulte to take over for the current DNI Tulsi Gabbard, who resigned in May after her husband was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
Pulte, who will take over in the interim when Gabbard’s resignation becomes official on June 30, has apparently been tasked with reducing the number of employees at the 18 intelligence agencies over which the DNI presides.
“I’d like to see it smaller. I think there are a lot of people in there that shouldn’t be there,” Trump told the Wall Street Journal, referring to the intelligence community.
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Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency Bill Pulte walks outside the White House, Sept. 2, 2025, in Washington.(AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
The selection of Pulte, who currently serves as Trump’s Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, has reportedly irked a swath of lawmakers, including former Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., who publicly criticized the move.
“We don’t need a weaponized DNI. We need professionals there,” Thune said.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters after the Senate passed a Department of Homeland Security funding bill at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on April 2, 2026. The bill funds all of DHS except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection and was sent back to the House.(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
But Pulte’s outsider status was explicitly what made Trump inclined to pick him the first place, he explained to the Wall Street Journal.
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“You’re less shackled,” he told the outlet. “It sort of gives you more power, you know, for a somewhat limited period of time.”
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump assuaged concerns that Pulte would have difficulty being confirmed by the Senate if picked for the role on a permanent basis. He ensured the public that an active search for a permanent replacement was ongoing and that Pulte’s interim status would benefit him.
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on June 3, 2026.(Alex Brandon/AP)
“Frankly, it might be good for him to shake it up before people come,” Trump said. “Because, if he reduced the size, in conjunction with me…and in conjunction with possibly the person coming in…he can do a lot of the hard work and we wouldn’t have to saddle somebody that goes in,” Trump told the Wall Street Journal.
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Pulte, who also chairs the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac government-sponsored entities (GSEs), has already affected legislative outcomes.
After six Senate Republicans joined with the Democrats to block a bill reauthorizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., warned that Democrats would not vote for the reauthorization as long as Pulte was in charge of intelligence.
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“I don’t see how you get the necessary Democrat votes… that would get them to 60,” Warner said.
Fox News Digital contacted the offices of Leader Thune and Senator Warner and reached out to Bill Pulte for further clarity.
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