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Official title: Modify the responsibilities and authorities of the Director of National Intelligence, to reform the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 27, 2025 by Thomas Bryant Cotton · Last progress June 27, 2025
The bill trades streamlined governance and potential near‑term cost savings and faster operational consolidation for significant disruptions to education and workforce pipelines, reduced external analytic partnerships, diminished transparency and oversight, and risks to certain national‑security capabilities.
Federal employees, taxpayers, and the intelligence community face a leaner, less-duplicative governance structure as multiple statutory offices, named positions, and overlapping authorities are eliminated or consolidated, clarifying roles and reducing bureaucratic complexity.
Taxpayers and budget overseers may see reduced costs and improved asset management because OMB can require sale/divestment of unneeded ODNI property and the National Intelligence University is closed, shrinking the ODNI administrative footprint.
Analytic independence and procurement efficiency could improve because the bill restricts NIP funding to entities free of disqualifying foreign ties and requires an ODNI acquisition reform plan to prioritize timely commercial solutions.
Students, intelligence trainees, and language/research programs lose statutory support and educational capacity because the National Intelligence University is closed and the Foreign Languages Program and related cross-disciplinary education provisions are repealed, cutting scholarships, courses, and institutional training pipelines.
Large numbers of federal employees, government contractors, and program staff face job losses, reassignment, or career disruption due to office eliminations, transfers, a 650‑FTE cap, and termination of named positions across multiple components.
Intelligence analytic capacity and access to outside expertise may be reduced because restrictions on NIP funding to organizations with certain foreign ties and elimination of certain analyst/manager roles and centers narrow partnerships and sources of subject-matter expertise.
Based on analysis of 26 sections of legislative text.
Restructures the intelligence community: closes NIU, moves centers into FBI/CIA, bans DEI and some foreign‑funded analytic collaboration, and requires facility divestments and staffing limits.
The bill restructures large parts of the U.S. intelligence community: it eliminates or winds down several statutory offices (including the National Intelligence University and several ‘‘centers’’), transfers some centers into the FBI and CIA, renames senior positions, caps certain staff, and creates authority for short‑term national intelligence task forces. It bans use of National Intelligence Program funds for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and for analytic collaboration with entities that receive or expect foreign government support (except Five Eyes partners). The bill also requires sale or divestment of certain ODNI facilities judged unnecessary, narrows a number of statutory authorities and reporting requirements, and phases many changes into effect over 30–365 days.