President Donald Trump said Friday that he wants Bill Pulte, his new acting director of national intelligence, to cut the office, which has already been significantly scaled back during the president's second term.
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Trump noted that the size of the office as been "way too high for way too long," and that "if he cut, I wouldn't mind."
"Bill Pulte is very good, he's very talented," Trump told reporters on Air Force One as he traveled to Wisconsin for a agriculture roundtable discussion. The president said in an earlier interview with the Wall Street Journal that he has asked Pulte to start the process of firing employees.
Democratic Wisconsin senator says Trump's stop in the swing state shows he's nervous
Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin said Trump's visit to a rural swing district in Wisconsin shows he knows Republicans are in trouble in the midterms.
The stop on Friday for a farmer-focused round table in Chippewa Falls marks the first time Trump has visited Wisconsin in his second term. It comes just four days after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. toured a dairy farm in the congressional district held by Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden.
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"They know they're in trouble," Baldwin said of Republicans. "They know across the country they're in trouble."
Baldwin says Trump's visit is "not going to do the job in convincing our farmers they are doing better than they're doing. They know the reality."
Trump is scheduled to be joined by Van Orden, one of his most vocal supporters. Democrats have targeted that district this year.