Trump Rules Out Pulte as Permanent Intelligence Chief Amid Bipartisan Backlash

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said Thursday that federal housing finance regulator Bill Pulte, his pick for acting director of national intelligence, would not be his “permanent” choice for the critical security post. [...] Trump said other candidates were under consideration for nomination to the post. “We’re interviewing people right now,” he said. [...] Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., sent Trump a letter on Thursday calling on him to rescind Pulte's national security appointment. [...] At a hearing on Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed reports that he had threatened to fight Pulte in September of 2025, a sign of the friction that the federal housing finance director had generated inside the administration. [...] “He’s a person who’s got high integrity,” Trump said Thursday about Pulte.