WILLIAM PULTE

On 2026-06-11, Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) delivered a floor speech titled "WILLIAM PULTE" in the Senate.

WILLIAM PULTE

Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 99 (Thursday, June 11, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 99 (Thursday, June 11, 2026)] [Senate] [Page S2743] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] WILLIAM PULTE Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, now on Bill Pulte. The whole job of the Director of National Intelligence is to keep America safe, but Trump's decision to appoint Bill Pulte--someone with absolutely zero relevant experience--is going to put Americans in danger. Let me repeat, America. With Pulte in charge, we are in danger. This job is so sensitive, we need real leadership in the intelligence community, not a national security novice sent to undermine the work of intelligence professionals. That is what Pulte is expert in. Trump has an enemy, he goes after them, even if the facts don't merit it. Look what he did to my attorney general in New York Letitia James, and with so many others, including Cook at the Federal Reserve. He is just a hit man in a certain sense, a financial sense. And it is outrageous. He has no fidelity to fact. He is just a yes-man to Trump. Trump says: Go after one of my enemies--and Pulte does. No one in their right mind would trust Bill Pulte, a person nicknamed ``Little Trump'' by his administration colleagues to speak truth to power, to conduct objective analysis, to resist efforts to politicize the intelligence community. In a job where facts are so important and the President knowing the real facts is so important, to have this man who has no fidelity to facts in this job, again, is very dangerous for the American people. Trump and Republicans need to put an adult in the room. Bill Pulte is not the man for the job, and my Republican colleagues know it. ____________________