The nomination hearing for Jay Clayton, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as the next US director of national intelligence, is scheduled for July 15, according to a notice from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Background
President Trump nominated Clayton last month to lead the nation’s 18 intelligence agencies, amid a political backlash over the loyalist he had picked to fill the role temporarily. That close ally, Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte, had no national security experience, raising concerns even among some Republicans that he would ‘weaponize’ intelligence against Trump’s perceived political foes.
President Trump told reporters at the start of July that there would be a hearing in two weeks from then for Clayton’s confirmation. In mid-June, he had called for its abrupt postponement in an effort to force Congress to pass the so-called Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, a strict voter identification bill.
Original reporting: Appleton, WI News Feed (HLL/CB) — read the source article.
