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applegrove

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Fri May 2, 2025, 06:10 PM May 2025

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 May 2025 OP
Headline Editors have been served a home run pitch bucolic_frolic May 2025 #1
Happy Birthday, Vlad! Norrrm May 2025 #2
I am actually fine with this. The US spy agencies are massively overbudgeted. And I am old enough to remember kelly1mm May 2025 #3
this will go nowhere DOA Nimble_Idea May 2025 #4

bucolic_frolic

(55,133 posts)
1. Headline Editors have been served a home run pitch
Fri May 2, 2025, 06:12 PM
May 2025

"Trump Plans Major Downsizing of Intelligence"

 

kelly1mm

(5,756 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
May 2025

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

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