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Trump says Senate hearing on DNI nominee is cancelled until US attorney replacement confirmed

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President Donald Trump declared in an early Wednesday morning Truth Social post that a scheduled Senate hearing on Jay Clayton’s nomination to serve as director of national intelligence would not move forward Wednesday.
The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has a hearing on Clayton’s nomination for DNI scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.
But the president said the hearing will not take place until Jamie McDonald has been confirmed to fill the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York post.
President Trump tied the move to an ongoing dispute over renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, claiming Democrats backed away from an agreement to support the surveillance authority after Republicans agreed to move away from Bill Pulte as acting DNI. The provision allows U.S. intelligence agencies to collect communications of foreign targets located outside the U.S.
TRUMP PICKS JAMES MCDONALD TO LEAD POWERFUL SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK AFTER JAY CLAYTON’S DEPARTURE
U.S. President Donald Trump attends a morning work meeting to «revive balanced, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth for the benefit of all» in the presence of the G7 countries, partner countries, the International Monetary Fund, and the OECD, as part of the G7 summit, in Evian, eastern France, on June 17, 2026. (Ludovic MARIN / AFP via Getty Images)
The president further said he would not support renewal of FISA authorities unless Congress also advances the SAVE AMERICA ACT, a voting-security measure backed by the administration.
Clayton’s hearing had been scheduled amid a broader debate over the future of U.S. intelligence leadership and the reauthorization of key surveillance authorities.
TRUMP NOMINATES JAY CLAYTON, FORMER SEC CHAIRMAN, CURRENT US ATTORNEY, AS INTELLIGENCE DIRECTOR
«Regarding the approval of our Great Patriot, Jay Clayton, we are cancelling the Senate Hearing RE: DNI today, and will not be going forward until Jamie McDonald is approved to be U.S. Attorney. In the meantime, Bill Pulte will remain as the Acting Director of National Intelligence. Thank you for your attention to this matter!» Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Wednesday.
Pulte «will take over on June 19th,» the president declared in a post last week.
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Jay Clayton, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), during the Bloomberg Global Credit Forum in New York, US, on Wednesday, June 3, 2026. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«The Republicans agreed with Dumocrats to remove very fair, and talented, William Pulte, from serving as Acting DNI in return for getting FISA approved by the Dumocrats. However, the Republicans moved so fast with the hearings of the Great Jay Clayton, current U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, that Pulte would be gone before the Dumocrats would vote on FISA. Now, the Dumocrats are saying they will vote against FISA — So, the Republicans wound up having fulfilled their commitment, but Dumocrats broke the Deal,» Trump said in his post on Wednesday morning.
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: LAWMAKERS SCRAMBLE AS FISA FIGHT COMES AT THE WORST POSSIBLE TIME

William Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), during a news conference at the Federal Housing Finance Association (FHFA) headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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«In addition, the newly nominated U.S. Attorney, Jamie McDonald, must be confirmed and blue slipped. Because of the ridiculous views of Republicans on blue slipping (Dumocrats are often willing to nix it), I may not be able to get the extraordinary Sullivan & Cromwell Partner, Jamie, approved, and I don’t want to take Jay Clayton away from the great job he is doing until Jamie is in place. Therefore, to add a slight bit of intrigue but, for the Good of the Nation, and the People of our Country, I will not approve FISA without THE SAVE AMERICA ACT going along with it. Not complicated, actually, the Republicans fell into a trap,» he added.
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Florida AG threatens Fauci investigation after Senate hearing

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said he will be opening up an investigation into former National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Dr. Anthony Fauci following Fauci’s explosive decision to invoke his Fifth Amendment right and not answer any questions during a congressional hearing Wednesday.
«Fauci’s lack of candor to Congress is unbelievable. My office is launching an investigation into Dr. Fauci. It’s past time we get the truth of what happened during COVID,» Uthmeier wrote in a Wednesday post on X.
Uthmeier further expanded on his decision in an exclusive statement to Fox News Digital.
FAUCI PLEADS FIFTH WITH ‘ZERO LEGAL JUSTIFICATION’ AS CRITICS ERUPT AND DEMAND CONTEMPT CHARGES
James Uthmeier spoke at the National Conservative Convention on Sept. 3, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
«In light of recent reports exposed by Senator Rand Paul, we will investigate any and all potential violations of Florida law involving Anthony Fauci,» Uthmeier told Fox News Digital.
«Our inquiry will focus on what Fauci knew, when he knew it, and how he misled the American people. We will examine the physical and monetary harms to Floridians that may have resulted from his deceptions and determine whether his conduct exposes him to liability under state law,» Uthmeier’s statement concluded.
Uthmeier cited revelations published by Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., which revealed internal notes Fauci wrote on government computers during his time at NIAID.
FAUCI’S NEWLY RELEASED COVID DIARIES REVEAL BIZARRE FIXATION ON FAME AS PANDEMIC DEATHS MOUNTED

Former NIH Director Anthony Fauci listens during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on July 29, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Fauci declined to answer questions, asserting his Fifth Amendment right. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The internal notes, which Paul and others have taken to referring to as Fauci’s «diary,» suggest Fauci appeared to publicly overstate the death rate from COVID-19 compared to what he wrote privately.
«[Former CDC Director] Tom Frieden called me this AM and we discussed various aspects of the outbreak,» Fauci wrote on Feb. 8, 2020.
«He and I are on the same page in thinking tht [sic] this is acting like a bad influenza in its transmissibility and that the denominator is much greater than 34,867 (above) making the case fatality rate (CFR) more like 0.2-0.3 % rather than 2.0%,» Fauci’s entry concluded.
However, a month later, in congressional testimony to the House Oversight Committee on March 11, 2020, Fauci pegged the mortality rate at 1%.
«I think if you count all the cases of minimally symptomatic or asymptomatic infection, that probably brings the mortality rate down to somewhere around one percent, which means it is 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu,» he testified.

Anthony Fauci declined to testify in a Senate committee hearing on his role in the US response to COVID-19, invoking his Fifth Amendment rights. (Left (Alex WROBLEWSKI / AFP via Getty Images), Right (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images))
When called to testify on the revelations before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday, Fauci exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer legislators’ questions 111 times.
Uthmeier is not the only Republican to take aim at the former COVID czar Fauci in light of the revelations.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Wednesday that Fauci should be held in congressional contempt for refusing to answer questions despite receiving a presidential pardon.
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«I think Anthony Fauci has had contempt for Congress and contempt for the American people for decades,» he said. «His diary shows that he deliberately lied to the American people over and over and over again,» Cruz said.
Paul, for his part, said his committee will vote on whether to hold Fauci in contempt next week.
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Gobierno asegura que el desempleo en Panamá ya no es de dos dígitos

El Gobierno de Panamá aseguró que el país dejó atrás el desempleo de dos dígitos y que la recuperación del mercado laboral comienza a reflejarse en la economía de los hogares.
La ministra de Trabajo y Desarrollo Laboral, Jackeline Muñoz, afirmó que las cifras preliminares ubican la tasa de desempleo en alrededor de 9.1%, a la espera de la validación oficial del Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censo (INEC).
Como respaldo a esa afirmación, el Ministerio de Trabajo reportó que entre enero y junio de 2026 se firmaron 174,383 contratos de trabajo, un crecimiento de 22.5% frente a los 142,391 registrados durante el mismo período del año anterior.
Sin embargo, la recuperación todavía no alcanza los niveles observados antes de la pandemia, ya que en el primer semestre de 2019 el país contabilizó 202,108 contrataciones, unas 27,700 más que las alcanzadas este año.

El incremento de las contrataciones estuvo impulsado principalmente por empleos de carácter temporal. Las estadísticas del Mitradel muestran que los contratos definidos, es decir, aquellos con una duración previamente establecida, concentraron 94.922 registros, equivalentes a más de la mitad de todas las contrataciones realizadas durante el semestre y un aumento de 23,3% respecto al año anterior.
A ellos se sumaron 38,394 contratos por obra determinada, modalidad que registró el mayor crecimiento porcentual al aumentar 33.1%, favorecida por la recuperación gradual del sector construcción.
En contraste, los contratos indefinidos, que ofrecen una mayor estabilidad laboral, ascendieron a 41,067, con un incremento de 12.4%, lo que evidencia que el mercado todavía genera una proporción importante de empleos de corta duración.
Muñoz sostuvo que los resultados responden a la reactivación económica y a la ejecución de proyectos públicos y privados que comienzan a traducirse en oportunidades de empleo.
La ministra recordó que durante 2025 se generaron alrededor de 63.000 nuevos puestos de trabajo y aseguró que la meta anunciada por el presidente José Raúl Mulino de crear 80,000 nuevos empleos es alcanzable.
Añadió que los sectores de contabilidad, logística, administración, comercio y automóviles encabezan actualmente la demanda de trabajadores, mientras que la construcción continuará siendo uno de los principales motores de contratación gracias al desarrollo de obras de infraestructura contempladas por el Gobierno.
También destacó que 936 jóvenes consiguieron una plaza laboral mediante el programa Mi Primer Empleo durante el primer semestre, mientras que 636 participantes ya cuentan con una vacante garantizada dentro de Mi Primer Empleo Agro.
Las cifras también reflejan importantes diferencias por sexo y región. Del total de contratos firmados durante el primer semestre, 117.898 correspondieron a hombres y 56.485 a mujeres, mientras que la sede central del Mitradel, que comprende principalmente la ciudad de Panamá, concentró 94,804 contrataciones.

Entre las provincias sobresalieron Panamá Oeste, con 13.345 contratos; Chiriquí, con 11.800; y Colón, con 9.130. El mejor desempeño mensual se registró en junio, cuando se firmaron 32.784 nuevos contratos, un aumento cercano al 39% frente al mismo mes del año anterior, lo que confirma la aceleración observada durante la primera mitad del año.
Pese a estos resultados, el mercado laboral panameño continúa enfrentando desafíos estructurales. La última Encuesta de Mercado Laboral del INEC, correspondiente a septiembre de 2025, situó la tasa de desempleo en 10.4%, equivalente a 227,302 personas sin trabajo, mientras que la informalidad alcanzó 47.1%, es decir, cerca de 785,000 personas laboraban sin contrato formal ni cobertura de seguridad social.
Aunque el Gobierno sostiene que el empleo formal mantiene una trayectoria de recuperación, el reto ahora será consolidar ese crecimiento mediante puestos de trabajo permanentes y recuperar el volumen de contrataciones que el país registraba antes de la pandemia, cuando el mercado laboral mostraba un mayor dinamismo y estabilidad.
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