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Shortly after House Speaker Mike Johnson failed to pass a short-term extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which expires Friday, Trump bowed to congressional pressure and quickly nominated Jay Clayton, his former S.E.C. chairman, to serve as permanent director of national intelligence—replacing incoming temporary director Bill Pulte after an outpouring of anger from Democrats and Republicans, alike. Congress had already forced the president to drop the ballroom funding proposal and the anti-weaponization fund. Now Pulte is off the table as well.
