“President Donald Trump has created an absolute mess,” Punchbowl News reports.
“The Senate Intelligence Committee was forced to cancel its confirmation hearing for Jay Clayton to serve as director of national intelligence after Trump instructed him not to attend.”
“At 3:54 a.m. today, Trump posted on Truth Social that he was looking to ‘cancel’ Clayton’s confirmation hearing to be DNI because he wanted the Senate to also confirm James McDonald as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York…”
“Trump’s meandering post is having a cascading effect on other legislative priorities, too. It threatens to upend an extension of FISA Section 702 authority, which has been dark since Friday. Democrats have vowed they won’t vote to reauthorize Section 702 until a permanent DNI nominee is in place. And Trump repeated his unrealistic demand that GOP leaders attach the SAVE America Act to a FISA extension.”
Playbook: “The last-minute U-turn is Trump’s latest capricious decision that is puzzling Republicans on the Hill.”
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