The president is keeping housing chief Bill Pulte in his role as acting director, which is expected to reopen a fight over the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

President Donald Trump says he’s delaying Jay Clayton’s nomination to lead the U.S. intelligence community in a bid to force Congress to act on a voter ID bill that currently lacks enough support for

The Senate was set to begin the confirmation process for Jay Clayton as Director of National Intelligence Today. But President Trump is calling for a delay.

In a lengthy overnight post to Truth Social, Trump said that he was canceling a confirmation hearing planned for Wednesday. Bipartisan anger over Trump’s initial pick for the role led to the lapse of a key spying tool.

Jay Clayton won’t be sitting for his confirmation hearing today to be President Donald Trump’s permanent director of national intelligence, after Trump said in an early morning Truth Social post that he wants Clayton’s replacement confirmed as the top US attorney in Manhattan first.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he was delaying federal prosecutor Jay Clayton’s nomination to lead the U.S. intelligence community in a bid to force Congress to act on a voter ID bill that currently lacks enough support for passage.

President Trump says hearing on nomination of Jay Clayton for DNI is being called off until Jamie McDonald is confirmed as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Trump accused Republicans of working with Democrats to "remove very fair, and talented, William Pulte," the loyalist his picked to serve as acting DNI.