Warner Pushes Senate to Confirm Trump's DNI Nominee Clayton as Intelligence Authority Expires

—Sen. Mark Warner urged his colleagues to move quickly on confirming Jay Clayton as director of national intelligence, noting that spy authority had expired amid a Senate standoff and that Clayton's confirmation was key to resolving the impasse. Warner's backing of the Trump nominee represents an unusual bipartisan push on an intelligence post at a time of heightened national security concerns. Separately, the Senate held a confirmation hearing for Trump's nominee to be the second-ranking official at the White House budget office.