Posted on 08/20/2025 12:49:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
'ODNI 2.0 is the start of a new era focused on serving our country.'
WASHINGTON—Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard will announce Wednesday afternoon that she is refocusing her agency to aggressively execute its national security mission, shrinking the Office of the Director of National Intelligence nearly 50% and saving hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.
Gabbard described the changes as “ODNI 2.0,” in a statement on Wednesday, calling the shift “the start of a new era focused on serving our country, fulfilling our core national security mission with excellence, always grounded in the U.S. Constitution, and ensuring the safety, security, and freedom of the American people.”
ODNI will be reduced by almost 50% by the end of the fiscal year 2025, ultimately saving taxpayers over $700 million per year, senior DNI officials shared with The Daily Wire. This will be done by combining agency centers and reducing personnel.
The ODNI workforce will receive an email on Wednesday afternoon informing them of the changes. Employees will also be informed if their position has been eliminated, alerting them that they will be separated from the ODNI by September 30.
A message to the DNI workforce viewed by The Daily Wire states that the changes will reduce personnel by 30-40%.
The announcement comes after a months-long review of ODNI to ascertain, in accordance with President Donald Trump’s executive order, how ODNI could best fulfill its mission to integrate intelligence from and provide oversight over all intelligence community elements to make sure that it provides timely, accurate, and apolitical intelligence to Trump and to lawmakers.
Senior ODNI officials who assisted in the months-long mission review briefed members of the press on Wednesday at ODNI’s headquarters in McLean, Virginia, a few hours before Gabbard made the official announcement.
These officials stressed that the review was...
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We could cut most agencies by 30-50%, Government is bloated and the medical and pension costs are in the billions - we need to cut government largesse and spending.
As Hillary Clinton famously said about the West Virginia coal miners: they can take up coding.
Yeah, until off-shoring and H1-B’s are cut good luck finding job.
"I'm tired of hearing this diatribe from the naysayers that it's going to put people out of business. It might in a few selective situations ... but if they are so sensitive, my position is they're probably going to go under anyway.” This callous remark brought to mind a statement by then-first lady Hillary Clinton when she was promoting her universal health care proposal. When told how the plan could bankrupt small businesses, Clinton said, "I can't be responsible for every undercapitalized small business in America.”
ABOLISH the unconstitutional federal agencies saving the taxpayers $3 TRILLION!!!!
Listen to your social betters - Mrs. Clinton can tell them they were undercapitalized bc they weren’t smart enough to set up a Clinton Foundation that was a sump pump for foreign “donations”. Somehow I can’t associate a guy working eight hours a day in a coal mine as being undercapitalized but then again he has to feed his family and never had the opportunity to steal from foreign business types seeking government favors. Let them eat code!
I want to know where the trillions the DOD can’t find are.
“””Yeah, until off-shoring and H1-B’s are cut good luck finding job.”””
Learn to wire.
Spent keeping the neo-cons and democrats in power the last 40 years.
Awesome! Keep chipping away!
W I N N I N G
More winning...
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and that was just the personal chef, masseuse, and chaufeur of each agent.
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