1. United States
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3. Letter

When we scale down our National Intelligence Agency, with the intent to possibly do away with it altogether, we are making America less safe. Donald Trump is taking an are to every single area in the government for no other reason than the fact that many of our government employees have previously worked under a Democratic administration, and other Republican administrations as well. Aboard Air Froce One, President Donald Trump said Friday that he wants his new acting director of national intelligence, Bill Pulte, to cut the office, which has already been significantly scaled back during his second term. Trump noted that the size of the office has been “way too high for way too long” and that “if he cut, I wouldn’t mind that.” “He’ll do a very good job,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One as he traveled to Wisconsin for an event on agriculture. “He’ll watch it closely, but Bill Pulte is very good, he’s very talented.” The Republican president said in an earlier interview with The Wall Street Journal that he has asked Pulte to start the process of firing employees. In the interview, Trump said he has already conveyed his view to Pulte, who has served as head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency but has no apparent national security expertise. “I’d like to see it smaller. I think there are a lot of people in there that shouldn’t be there,” Trump said, which the Journal said was in reference to intelligence community officials who had served in the Democratic administrations of Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama. Comgress has to step up and put an end to the wholesale destruction of the Federal Government!