Trump’s Intelligence Purge Isn’t Just a Budget Cut. It’s a Setup

The administration says it's refocusing on China and immigration. But what it's really doing is dismantling the agencies that investigate power.

The Trump administration is moving to cut over 1,200 positions from the CIA, part of a broader shakeup across the U.S. intelligence community. Officials say the changes are designed to “realign national security priorities,” focusing resources on threats from China and transnational drug cartels. But the scale of the reductions—and the agencies affected…