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GOP senators predicted this week that William J. Pulte, whom President Trump made acting director of national intelligence last week, will be sacrificed for the purposes of reauthorizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is set to expire on Friday.<\/p>

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Democrats have refused to move forward on negotiations to renew the foreign spying authority while Mr. Pulte leads the agency.<\/p>\n

Mr. Pulte has served as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, where he referred New York Attorney General Letitia James and Federal Reserve Board member Lisa Cook to the Department of Justice for mortgage fraud charges, drawing fire from Democrats.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to assume the president realizes that Pulte has caused a political problem between the Congress and between the White House because that is what has held FISA up at this point,\u201d Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI assume the president knows that because he announced that they were going to interview or have interviewed about four or five other people for the permanent position, so I don\u2019t think it\u2019s the case that any of us should think Pulte is there forever,\u201d the Iowa Republican told The Washington Times.<\/p>\n\n

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But Mr. Trump \u2014 a day later \u2014 indicated he is not moving forward at this time to replace Mr. Pulte, at least for now.<\/p>

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Sen. Rick Scott, Florida Republican, defended Mr. Pulte to reporters on Monday, but suggested the White House and Republicans will eventually have to move on.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ll sacrifice Pulte, I don\u2019t think there is any question about that,\u201d he told The\u00a0Times on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cBill is a good guy, but I mean, Trump has a lot of problems he is dealing with right now. He has to get FISA reauthorized, he is dealing with the weaponization fund, finally we got CBP and ICE paid for, which was all self-inflicted,\u201d Mr. Scott said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Scott said he believes there is not enough time for the White House to negotiate with Congress so it is likely the issue will be punted for a period of time.<\/p>\n

Just about 24 hours after saying he would not replace Mr. Pulte, Mr. Trump changed his mind.<\/p>\n

He nominated U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton for the permanent post as director of national intelligence. The move came hours after the House declined to reauthorize FISA.<\/p>

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