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applegrove

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Fri May 2, 2025, 06:10 PM 18 hrs ago

Trump Plans Major Downsizing at Intelligence Agencies

Trump Plans Major Downsizing at Intelligence Agencies

May 2, 2025 at 4:40 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 32 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2025/05/02/trump-plans-major-downsizing-at-intelligence-agencies/


“The Trump administration is planning significant personnel cuts at the Central Intelligence Agency and other major U.S. spy units, downsizing the government’s most sensitive national security agencies, according to people familiar with the plans,” the Washington Post reports.
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Trump Plans Major Downsizing at Intelligence Agencies (Original Post) applegrove 18 hrs ago OP
Headline Editors have been served a home run pitch bucolic_frolic 18 hrs ago #1
Happy Birthday, Vlad! Norrrm 17 hrs ago #2
I am actually fine with this. The US spy agencies are massively overbudgeted. And I am old enough to remember kelly1mm 16 hrs ago #3
this will go nowhere DOA Nimble_Idea 14 hrs ago #4

bucolic_frolic

(50,078 posts)
1. Headline Editors have been served a home run pitch
Fri May 2, 2025, 06:12 PM
18 hrs ago

"Trump Plans Major Downsizing of Intelligence"

kelly1mm

(5,706 posts)
3. I am actually fine with this. The US spy agencies are massively overbudgeted. And I am old enough to remember
Fri May 2, 2025, 08:06 PM
16 hrs ago

when this was a mainstream Democratic belief.......

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