As of this evening, we just finished a 4th round of thoughtful, measured layoffs. Since becoming Acting Director of National Intelligence, our team has been smartly, and carefully, reducing the size of ODNI, re-focusing ODNI on national security, the law, and the statute. As of this evening, we just finished a 4th round of thoughtful, measured layoffs. [NOTE: After strong bipartisan pushback in the Senate against Trump’s nomination of Pulte for DNI, the President dropped him for U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton, who at his Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation refused to say that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election. The committee approved his nomination (9-8), moving it to a full Senate vote.]