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GOP senators balk at Trump’s pick of Pulte to head national intelligence
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Republican senators are expressing bewilderment at President Trump’s choice of Bill Pulte, the director the Federal House Finance Agency, to serve as the acting director of national intelligence (DNI), with some calling him “unqualified” because of his lack of national security or intelligence crede
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