Bloated intelligence bureaucracies don't fix themselves, and Pulte is doing exactly what Trump sent him to do. ODNI had already ballooned beyond its post-9/11 mandate, and trimming deadweight isn't reckless — it's overdue accountability. Democrats crying foul are the same people who stacked these agencies with loyalists, so their outrage is less about national security and more about losing their partisan control over the country's spy agencies.