Should Pulte be nominated to the role permanently, he would require a simple majority in the Senate to be confirmed. But the immediate pushback from some Senate Republicans, who hold a 53-47 majority in the upper chamber, could have made for an uphill battle to confirm him.
Still, the president said that Pulte, a Trump loyalist who had used his position as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to launch investigations into Trump’s perceived political foes, “may find out some things about the rigged elections” while he serves as director of national intelligence.
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