The MAGA enforcer will have wide-ranging access to the vast amounts of data the government collects.
Trump has named Bill Pulte has acting director of national intelligence.
Trump Names Housing Official As Acting Director Of National Intelligence
Critics question qualifications as loyalist inherits post amid global crises
Bill Pulte, housing agency director with no intelligence experience, appointed acting DNI; previously weaponized government data against Trump's political opponents. Role grants access to top national security secrets and surveillance systems, raising governance concerns about intelligence infrastructure politicization.
The close ally with no known intelligence experience will oversee 18 US agencies while keeping his current role regulating mortgage market.
Trump appoints Bill Pulte, 38, acting DNI without security experience, keeping FHFA/Fannie Mae roles. Pulte's ethics violations and improper data access signal governance risk for US tech policy and financial regulation.
U.S. President Donald Trump has tapped Bill Pulte to be acting director of national intelligence, putting a real estate scion and fierce Trump loyalist in a key national security post as the U.S. remains at war with…
Bill Pulte has shown a willingness to go after the president's perceived enemies.
Democrats are criticizing President Donald Trump's selection of federal housing finance Director Bill Pulte to be acting director of national intelligence, saying Pulte lacks…
Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency Bill Pulte walks outside the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025, in Washington.Mark Schiefelbein | APPresident Donald Trump on…
President Donald Trump on Tuesday named housing official Bill Pulte, who has played a leading role in stoking the president’s retribution campaign, as acting director of national…
President Donald Trump has tapped federal housing finance Director Bill Pulte to be acting director of national intelligence to replace Tulsi Gabbard.Trump
Pulte became an unlikely figure of Trump's campaign of political combat.
Pulte’s current role involves ensuring the soundness of the mortgage market, but he morphed into a megaphone who went after the Republican president’s perceived political foes.
The president has tapped Bill Pulte to be acting director of national intelligence.
President Trump named Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as his new acting director of national intelligence.
President Trump on Tuesday announced he's tapping housing official Bill Pulte to serve as the acting director of national intelligence to replace Tulsi Gabbard.
The Republican president cited Pulte's work at the FHFA and his role as chair of the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Trump appoints FHFA Director Bill Pulte as acting Director of National Intelligence, replacing Tulsi Gabbard.
Pulte — who leads the Federal Housing Finance Agency — will take over for Tulsi Gabbard.
Bill Pulte, Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, has been appointed as acting Director of National Intelligence by President Donald Trump in a major administrative…
Pulte, who will replace intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard, is a real estate businessman with little to no experience in national security.
Pulte is a loyal support of Trump and has publicly criticized then-Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for not cutting the central bank's interest rates.
President Trump names Bill Pulte, head of federal housing, as acting director of national intelligence. Learn about Pulte's controversial appointment and b