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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 governments 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
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bucolic_frolic
(50,078 posts)1. Headline Editors have been served a home run pitch
"Trump Plans Major Downsizing of Intelligence"
Norrrm
(1,367 posts)2. Happy Birthday, Vlad!
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
when this was a mainstream Democratic belief.......
Nimble_Idea
(2,642 posts)4. this will go nowhere DOA
