Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) questions Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent during a Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing in Washington, DC on February 5, 2026.
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Republican Sen. Thom Tillis on Wednesday blasted President Donald Trump‘s pick to lead the U.S. intelligence community as an “incendiary attack dog” and said he has no path to being confirmed by the Senate.
The remarks on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” from the retiring North Carolina senator added to the growing backlash against Bill Pulte, the current head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, whom Trump appointed acting director of national intelligence on Tuesday.
“I don’t think he has a prayer” of making it through the Senate and becoming the permanent DNI, Tillis said of Pulte.
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