{"id":263521,"date":"2026-06-11T18:46:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T18:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/263521\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T18:46:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T18:46:43","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-president-trump-plans-to-nominate-us-attorney-jay-clayton-to-be-national-intelligence-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/263521\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | President Trump Plans To Nominate Us Attorney Jay Clayton To Be National Intelligence Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">President Donald Trump said Thursday that he plans to nominate Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, as director of national intelligence.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Trump announced the <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116732777898985789\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nomination on social media <\/a>amid pressure from Congress to name a permanent replacement for Tulsi Gabbard, who resigned last month. Trump faced intense pushback over his decision to name Bill Pulte, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as acting director.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-rich-text-asset-image=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/TrumpTruthJayClayton.png\" alt=\"TrumpTruthJayClayton.png\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The situation has led to a standoff in Congress as Democrats said they would refuse to renew a foreign intelligence powers unless Trump pulled Pulte\u2019s nomination and named a permanent nominee.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cFew people anywhere in the Legal Community are respected at the level of Jay,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cI encourage the United States Senate to confirm Jay as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump said Thursday that he plans to nominate Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-263521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}