Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is slashing her office's staff by more than 40% — the latest major Trump-era change slated for the intelligence agency.

The cuts at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or ODNI, are expected to save around $700 million annually, Gabbard's office estimated in a statement . Gabbard said ODNI "has become bloated and inefficient, and the intelligence community is rife with abuse of power."

In a fact sheet on the changes — dubbed "ODNI 2.0" — the agency said several departments it argued were redundant would be refocused. Those include the National Counterproliferation and Biosecurity Center, which monitors for weapons of mass destruction; the Foreign Malign Influence Center, which describes its mission as "mitigating thr

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