The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which has already shrunk its workforce by about one-quarter this year, will lose another 200 workers in coming weeks under an “ODNI 2.0” restructuring, the U.S. spy chief said Wednesday.

The office had slightly less than 2,000 employees at the start of the Trump administration and now has around 1,500. The additional cut would bring the year's total reduction to about 35 percent.

In a press release , Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said the changes would "reduce ODNI by over 40%" by Sept. 30 and "save taxpayers over $700 million per year."

Gabbard said ODNI, which was established after the September 11 attacks to lead the U.S. intelligence community, has “become bloated and inefficient, and the intelligence community

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