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As Donald Trump<\/strong> presses on with his contentious plan to install Bill<\/strong> Pulte<\/strong> as acting director of national intelligence on 19 June, he has reiterated that he has asked Pulte \u201cto execute the immediate and needed downsizing of the office, reverting staff to their home agencies\u201d.<\/p>\n In a post on Truth Social moments ago (despite being due at a bill signing), the president added: \u201cAt the same time, I am looking for a permanent ODNI Nominee with experience in National Security.\u201d<\/p>\n He went on: \u201cI am asking Congress to send me a short-term extension of FISA to provide time for the selection and confirmation of a permanent Head of the Agency.\u201d<\/p>\n Democratic lawmakers have said Pulte\u2019s appointment would scuttle a bipartisan agreement to renew section 702 of Fisa (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act), which is due to expire on Friday.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Radical Left Dumocrats are trying to take our National Security hostage because of unrelated issues,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n Share<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Key events<\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n David Smith<\/span><\/p>\n Progressives rallied around Graham Platner<\/strong> after his primary victory in Maine yesterday while Donald<\/strong> Trump<\/strong> again exerted his grip on the GOP by helping to defeat a politician who had pushed for the release of the Epstein files.<\/p>\n Primary elections were held in four states \u2013 Maine<\/strong>, Nevada<\/strong>, North Dakota<\/strong> and South Carolina<\/strong> \u2013 before November\u2019s midterms to decide control of both chambers of Congress. The results offered mixed signals about the direction of the two parties.<\/p>\n The marquee race was a Senate primary election in Maine, where Platner won 72% of the vote, defeating the state governor, Janet Mills, who had suspended her campaign but remained on the ballot, and third-placed David Costello, based on early results reported by Reuters.<\/p>\n The result sets up a bruising general election battle against the Republican incumbent, Susan Collins, which is likely to be tight, and could help decide control of the Senate.<\/p>\n <\/span>Graham Platner wins Maine Democratic Senate primary \u2013 video<\/span><\/p>\n Other elections offered fresh evidence of the issues shaping the wider political landscape. South Carolina served up another test of Trump\u2019s enduring influence over the Republican party. The president enjoyed a comfortable victory through his ally Lindsey Graham<\/strong>, who secured renomination to the Senate without being forced into a runoff.<\/p>\n In the primary for governor, the congresswoman Nancy<\/strong> Mace<\/strong> became the latest casualty of Trump\u2019s efforts to topple Republicans, after she demanded the release of the government\u2019s Epstein files.<\/p>\n But Trump\u2019s preferred candidate, the state\u2019s lieutenant <\/strong>governor, Pamela Evette<\/strong>, failed to secure an outright majority and must now face Alan Wilson, the state\u2019s attorney general, in a runoff election this month.<\/p>\n The longtime South Carolina congressman James Clyburn<\/strong> easily fended off a little-known primary challenger. Two Republicans are still competing for the chance to face Clyburn but he is expected to be the overwhelming favourite in the general election.<\/p>\n In Nevada, Democrats selected the state\u2019s attorney general, Aaron Ford<\/strong>, as their nominee for governor, setting up what is expected to be one of the country\u2019s most competitive statewide contests. Ford defeated the Washoe county commissioner, Alexis Hill, after largely ignoring his primary opponent and focusing instead on the Republican governor, Joe Lombardo.<\/p>\n Nevada also produced one of the most important congressional contests of the cycle. Republicans nominated Marty O\u2019Donnell<\/strong>, a Trump-endorsed composer best known for creating the soundtrack to the hugely successful Halo video game franchise, to challenge the Democratic congresswoman Susie Lee in the state\u2019s highly competitive third congressional district.<\/p>\n Teresa Benitez-Thompson<\/strong> won the Democratic primary in Nevada\u2019s second district. Benitez-Thompson, a former assembly leader, faces an uphill battle. Republicans outnumber Democrats by 70,000 in the district that covers Reno and rural northern Nevada.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.07 EDT<\/p>\n Also in the Oval Office earlier, Donald Trump<\/strong> said he expects top artificial intelligence companies to agree to \u201cgiving back\u201d to the public, an apparent reference to a possible government stake in the firms.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m going to have meetings with the top 12 or 15 executives very shortly, and we\u2019re talking about giving back something to the public, and if we do that, the public will become very rich<\/strong>,\u201d Trump told reporters. \u201cI think they\u2019ll do that, and I think it\u2019ll make it very popular<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n An agreement to give the US government equity stakes could have a massive impact on the government\u2019s finances. OpenAI \u2013 which is targeting a valuation of up to $1tn \u2013 in April publicly proposed creating a \u201cpublic wealth fund\u201d to invest in AI companies, according to a company statement. Proceeds from the fund would be \u201cdistributed directly to citizens\u201d, according to the company.<\/p>\n The Vermont senator Bernie Sanders<\/strong>, a Trump critic who sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020, has expressed support<\/a> for the idea of creating a US sovereign wealth fund by taking 50% stock in AI companies. Trump said last week that his team was looking into the idea<\/a>.<\/p>\n But beyond Washington, concern is growing among Americans about AI negatively affecting their lives, from fears that the rise of AI could put them out of work to the environmental impacts of nationwide datacenter projects.<\/p>\n With Reuters.<\/em><\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.49 EDT<\/p>\n Here\u2019s my colleague Marina Dunbar<\/strong>\u2019s report on Donald Trump<\/strong> signing the nearly $70bn immigration enforcement package into law today, after the House narrowly passed the legislation, ensuring funding for ICE and border patrol activities through the rest of his presidency.<\/p>\n \u201cThis morning, I\u2019m thrilled to sign the Secure America Act to immediately and fully fund the Department of Homeland Security through the end of my term,\u201d Trump said during the signing in the Oval Office. \u201cWe\u2019ll give the heroes of ICE and border patrol \u2013 and that\u2019s what they are, they\u2019re heroes \u2013 the support and resources they need to defend our borders, protect our homeland and to keep America safe.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/span>Donald Trump signs the Secure America Act in the Oval Office, allocating $70bn for his aggressive immigration enforcement agenda through 2029.<\/span> Photograph: ABACA\/ShutterstockShare<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.27 EDT<\/p>\n When asked about his earlier comment that he had asked Bill<\/strong> Pulte<\/strong>, whom he plans to install as acting director of national intelligence on 19 June, \u201cto execute the immediate and needed downsizing of the office, reverting staff to their home agencies\u201d, Donald Trump stood by his social media post.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople have wanted to downsize for a while,\u201d Trump said. \u201cMany people don\u2019t want it at all. A lot of people thought it was a duplication.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s choice of Pulte as the country\u2019s top intelligence official has prompted widespread concern over his complete lack of national security experience. The president defended his choice on Wednesday, telling reporters: \u201cSmart people are smart people. I always say I\u2019d rather have smart than experienced, but experience is good too.\u201d<\/p>\n He said he hoped reporters would give Pulte an \u201ceasy run\u201d, as \u201che\u2019s very busy\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cHe doesn\u2019t need stupid people saying, \u2018Why didn\u2019t you get a higher mark at a certain college?\u2019\u201d Trump said. \u201cBecause he\u2019s highly educated, he was a great student, he\u2019s great at everything he\u2019s done. How come he got a B-plus? See, they\u2019ll go after him for getting a B-plus instead of an A, but the other guy can be a thug.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.02 EDT<\/p>\n Donald Trump<\/strong> answered a question on Wednesday about Adam Hamawy<\/strong>, the army doctor who has secured the Democratic nomination to represent New Jersey\u2019s 12th congressional district, with a comment about Graham Platner<\/strong>, who has secured the Democratic nomination for the US Senate<\/strong> in Maine.<\/p>\n \u201cI actually think the one in Maine is worse because he\u2019s just an outright pig,\u201d Trump said Wednesday. \u201cI watched him a couple of times. He\u2019s like a pig, that\u2019s what he reminds me of.\u201d<\/p>\n Platner\u2019s campaign overcame a mountain of personal controveries ranging from alleged \u201ctoxic\u201d behavior towards women to a tattoo recognised as a Nazi symbol. Read more here:<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Trump<\/strong> also claims that the agreement is \u201cfully negotiated\u201d and it\u2019s a \u201cmeaningful paper\u201d that Iran<\/strong> just needs to sign.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Asked if he is thinking of attacking Iranian<\/strong> power plants and bridges (see my earlier post here on Fox News\u2019s report), Trump<\/strong> replies: \u201cWell, I\u2019m not going to say that to you, but I can do that.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.05 EDT<\/p>\n Trump<\/strong> has now gone straight to questions. Right off the bat, he\u2019s asked what he meant when he said Iran<\/strong> \u201cwill have to pay the price\u201d for taking too long to reach a deal.<\/p>\n The president responds:<\/p>\n double quotation markWell, we\u2019re going to be attacking them, attacking them very hard<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Asked if that means resuming bombing, Trump adds: \u201cYeah, well based on the helicopter, I assume we have the right to do that<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n He says Tehran should sign the deal and says \u201cthey keep tapping us along\u201d, before the US army Apache helicopter went down near the strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n Trump accused Iran of shooting down the aircraft, and the US military subsequently launched several hours of strikes on Iranian targets, including air defences and radar sites, near the Gulf. Iran responded with strikes targeting US bases in the region.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, we\u2019ll see what happens. But we hit them hard yesterday, and we\u2019re going to hit them hard again today<\/strong>,\u201d Trump added. \u201cAnd we\u2019ll see what happens with the deal<\/strong>. We were really close to a deal but they keep tapping us along, they keep playing us for suckers.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n Trump claims that Iran has already agreed to not obtaining a nuclear weapon, but the agreement still needs to be signed. (A reminder that Iran had previously agreed to this under the 2015 deal signed with the Obama administration, which Trump tore up three years later.)<\/p>\n He then attacks the Iranian team and president as \u201cvery stupid\u201d.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.06 EDT<\/p>\n Trump<\/strong> went on for some time<\/em> about his ongoing renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and said it will be completed by 4 July.<\/p>\n double quotation markWe sandblasted the surface, we fumigated it. We took out 11 dumpsters, big dumpsters full of garbage. It was all garbage. Some of the garbage was there for years. It was all disgusting. It smelled \u2026 We rinsed it out, and we gave it a beautiful surface and then we put a swimming pool topping, but industrial strength, industrial-strength tanks, lots of other things.<\/p>\n \u201cEverybody\u2019s looking at that reflecting pool,\u201d he added. \u201cWe use the dark blue, it\u2019s called American flag blue.\u201d<\/p>\n He still hasn\u2019t signed the bill<\/em>, by the way. Stay with us.<\/p>\n <\/span>Workers continue to clean and prepare the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as it is filled with water on Tuesday.<\/span> Photograph: Kevin Dietsch\/Getty ImagesShare<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a011.51 EDT<\/p>\n And Trump<\/strong> has arrived at the signing.<\/p>\n He begins by crediting the House speaker, Mike Johnson<\/strong>, for \u201cdoing a fantastic job\u201d for getting the bill through the House with such a slim majority.<\/p>\n He then goes on a very lengthy tangent about all the amazing swimming pools he\u2019s built in his property career and all the fountains they\u2019re restoring in DC. Hopefully we\u2019ll get to the signing and questions soon.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a011.35 EDT<\/p>\n As Donald Trump<\/strong> presses on with his contentious plan to install Bill<\/strong> Pulte<\/strong> as acting director of national intelligence on 19 June, he has reiterated that he has asked Pulte \u201cto execute the immediate and needed downsizing of the office, reverting staff to their home agencies\u201d.<\/p>\n In a post on Truth Social moments ago (despite being due at a bill signing), the president added: \u201cAt the same time, I am looking for a permanent ODNI Nominee with experience in National Security.\u201d<\/p>\n He went on: \u201cI am asking Congress to send me a short-term extension of FISA to provide time for the selection and confirmation of a permanent Head of the Agency.\u201d<\/p>\n Democratic lawmakers have said Pulte\u2019s appointment would scuttle a bipartisan agreement to renew section 702 of Fisa (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act), which is due to expire on Friday.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Radical Left Dumocrats are trying to take our National Security hostage because of unrelated issues,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n In his opening statement to the House oversight committee, which was shared on his website<\/a>, Bill Gates<\/strong> said:<\/p>\n double quotation markAt the outset, I want to state very clearly: I never witnessed nor had any indication that Epstein was engaged in ongoing criminal conduct<\/strong>. I never went to his island, his ranch, or his Florida home. I have never victimized anyone.<\/strong> While he may have sought to foster a personal relationship, I was never interested in that and never reciprocated.<\/p>\n Gates said he was introduced to Epstein in 2011 \u201cthrough people I trusted in my professional and philanthropic work\u201d, and that he \u201cclaimed he could raise billions of dollars for global health\u201d. But by 2014, he found this to be \u201ca dead-end\u201d and told Epstein their association would go no further.<\/p>\n Gates goes on to say that Epstein later tried to use knowledge of his extramarital affairs as leverage \u201cto pressure me to re-engage with him\u201d.<\/p>\n double quotation markIt was after this that I learned Epstein had become aware of sensitive information about my personal life, including the fact that I had been unfaithful in my marriage. These affairs had nothing to do with my interactions with Epstein, but they were painful for my family.<\/strong><\/p>\n As the public can now see, based on what has been released in the files, Epstein was working to use information about my infidelities<\/strong> \u2013 in addition to many lies that he layered on top<\/strong> \u2013 to pressure me to re-engage with him<\/strong>. He was unsuccessful in this effort, but it shows some of the ways he tried to leverage his interactions with me to further his agenda<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Gates expressed regret at meeting with Epstein, calling it \u201ca grave error of judg<\/strong>ment\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n double quotation markI recall being aware that Epstein had faced prior legal issues, but I did not fully understand the extent of the crimes he committed. I accepted the introduction without applying the scrutiny I should have.<\/p>\n I should never have met with Epstein in the first place.<\/strong> Based on what I know now, I understand that even if he had delivered the new donors he promised, it would not have justified associating with him<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.06 EDT<\/p>\n As Chris notes, the bill\u2019s passage yesterday was a victory for the House speaker, Mike Johnson<\/strong>, who is managing a historically slim Republican majority, and for Donald<\/strong> Trump<\/strong>, whose bid to create a nearly $1.8bn \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund that would pay out his allies almost derailed the legislation as it made its way through Congress.<\/p>\n Shortly before the act\u2019s passage in the House, GOP lawmakers voted down an attempt by Democrats to insert language that would have blocked the government from issuing payouts to anyone convicted of assaulting a police officer during the January 6 insurrection. And <\/strong>as the bill was being considered by the Senate last week, a small group of Republicans <\/strong>also sought to find bipartisan compromise on an amendment that would bar the so-called \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund<\/strong>, without success.<\/p>\n The proposal nonetheless remains an issue for some congressional Republicans, even though <\/strong>the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche<\/strong>, told a House committee last week that the proposal was dead in the water. In an interview broadcast on Sunday, the president again refused to rule out its creation.<\/p>\n The spending legislation was also delayed by uproar over a similarly politically toxic attempt to include $1bn for security improvements related to the ballroom Trump is building at the White House<\/strong>. Senate Republicans eventually agreed to remove those funds, after the chamber\u2019s parliamentarian ruled it could not be included if the measure was to pass using the budget reconciliation procedure to circumvent the Democratic filibuster.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a011.25 EDT<\/p>\n Chris Stein<\/span><\/p>\n House Republicans\u2019 approval of the bill yesterday, which will fund through the duration of his term the agencies leading Trump<\/strong>\u2019s immigration crackdown, ended a months-long standoff with Democrats that at one point shuttered the Department of Homeland Security<\/strong> (DHS).<\/p>\n The Secure America Act<\/strong> passed in a 214-212 vote that was largely along party lines, with Kevin Kiley<\/strong>, an independent who aligns with the Republicans, joining all Democrats in voting no.<\/p>\n The Senate approved the measure <\/strong>last week, which allocates $38bn to<\/strong> Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)<\/strong>, $26bn to Customs and Border Protection (CBP<\/strong>) and $5bn more to the DHS through September 2029<\/strong>. The legislation now awaits Trump\u2019s signature this morning.<\/p>\n The bill ends a blockade of funding for the agencies, which Democrats announced in January after federal agents killed two US citizens in Minneapolis amid an intensive campaign billed as rooting out undocumented immigrants. Their boycott \u2013 and fruitless effort to negotiate reforms to federal immigration enforcement operations \u2013 halted passage of a measure that authorized spending by the entirety of DHS, forcing it to shut down for 75 days from mid-February.<\/p>\n The department reopened at the end of April after Democrats agreed to support legislation that paid for all of its operations excluding ICE and CBP, while Republicans then moved to approve funding for those agencies through the duration of Trump\u2019s presidency<\/strong>, saying it was necessary to prevent Democrats from shutting down DHS again.<\/p>\n House Democrats unanimously opposed the bill, with Hakeem Jeffries<\/strong>, the minority leader, saying it would \u201cwaste $70 billion in taxpayer money to give a blank check to ICE without any guardrails, any oversight, any accountability\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Republicans countered by accusing Democrats of trying to \u201cdefund the police\u201d and allow undocumented immigrants to enter the country.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s Chris\u2019s report from yesterday:<\/em><\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a010.43 EDT<\/p>\n Donald Trump<\/strong> is due this morning to sign the Secure America Act \u2013 the GOP\u2019s $70bn bill that will fund ICE and Border Patrol through 2029 \u2013 into law, after the House narrowly passed the bill yesterday.<\/p>\n There is a livestream here<\/a> if you\u2019d like to follow the signing. Trump often makes remarks and\/or takes questions at these events, and I\u2019ll bring you all the key lines here.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a011.14 EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trump says Bill Pulte will \u2018execute the immediate downsizing\u2019 of intelligence community in temporary role As Donald Trump presses on with his contentious plan to install Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence on 19 June, he has reiterated that he has asked Pulte \u201cto execute the immediate and needed downsizing of the office, 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