Trump news at a glance: new intelligence director given green light to fire ‘a lot of people’

Trump says Bill Pulte is ‘less shackled’ because he has only been appointed director of national intelligence temporarily. Key US politics stories from 5 June 2026 at a glance

Donald Trump has said that he wants Bill Pulte, his new acting director of national intelligence, to cut the office, which has already been significantly scaled back during the president’s second term.

Trump noted that the size of the office as been “way too high for way too long,” and that “if he cut, I wouldn’t mind”.