[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 105 (Tuesday, June 23, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S3030]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             WILLIAM PULTE

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, on Tulsi Gabbard and the Pulte purge, 
there are reports that Tulsi Gabbard was receiving instructions from a 
so-called guru and repeating them word for word. That ought to concern 
all of us if it is true. No one knows who this guru really is, what his 
connections are, and where the instructions came from. Maybe it was 
completely innocent or maybe not, but we need answers.
  In appointing Bill Pulte to act as Acting DNI after Tulsi Gabbard, 
Donald Trump is replacing a guru with a grifter. Bill Pulte doesn't 
have an ounce of national security experience or an ounce of integrity, 
and he has already started to purge the intelligence experts who have 
that integrity. God only knows what Pulte plans to do next. Will Pulte 
interfere in our elections? expose intelligence sources? abuse 
Americans' private data? go after Trump's political enemies like he has 
done so many times before?
  With his insistence on installing Pulte, Trump has embarrassed his 
own party, weakened our national security, and endangered the American 
people--all to serve his personal political interests.
  When it comes to protecting Americans' national security, we need an 
adult in the room, and Pulte is removing them left and right.

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