President Trump expressed his desire for the incoming acting spy chief, Bill Pulte, to begin firing employees within the intelligence community. This appointment has faced controversy due to Pulte's lack of prior intelligence experience.

US President Donald Trump said Friday he wants his incoming acting spy chief to start firing employees, deepening the controversy over the appointment of a man with no previous intelligence experience. Bill Pulte, a Trump loyalist who heads the Federal Housing Finance Agency, was named by the Republican president on Tuesday as acting Director of National Intelligence. “If he cut, I wouldn’t mind that,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, adding that the number of employees in Pulte’s...