Senate Postpones Clayton’s Confirmation Hearing After Trump Upends Plans for Quick Vote

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The Senate reversed course and postponed Jay Clayton’s confirmation hearing on Wednesday after President Trump’s 11th-hour push to delay the installation of the new director of national intelligence scrambled Capitol Hill.

In an early morning post on Truth Social, Mr. Trump torpedoed the Senate’s plan to move ahead quickly with Clayton’s nomination with the hope of breaking a logjam on a key spy authority that expired late last week. The president said “we are cancelling the Senate Hearing RE: DNI today,” claiming it would not move forward until the Senate approves a replacement for his current role as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Despite the president’s demand, GOP Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, initially said the panel planned to proceed with the confirmation hearing “unless the president directs him not to appear or withdraws his nomination.”

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