The outgoing director of national intelligence spent his last days on the job boasting about firings that former officials say have not been substantiated, according to the New York Times.

Bill Pulte, the acting director of national intelligence, is expected to be replaced on Tuesday by Jay Clayton after a brief tenure as President Donald Trump's spy chief. In his final days and hours in office, Pulte said he had reduced staffing at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), a claim former officials questioned, the Times reported.

The Times cited a "flurry of social media posts" by Pulte. In a Tuesday post on X, he wrote, "We are, this morning, Executing a 5th and near final round of Terminations, an approximately 30 percent Staff Reduction from Weeks ago."

Pulte's office provided "no details" about the firings, the Times said. Several former U.S. intelligence officials told the newspaper that they did not believe his claims of a reduction.

"The acting DNI has been quick to announce firings and make public claims about them, but has so far declined to provide the Senate Intelligence Committee with the information necessary to assess the accuracy of those statements or the basis for those decisions," Rachel Cohen, a spokesperson for Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), told the Times. Warner is the top Democrat on the committee.

The dispute underscores how staffing changes at ODNI can draw added scrutiny: the office sits at the center of intelligence coordination across agencies, and even routine personnel moves can affect how Congress and overseers assess what is actually changing. Other former officials told the Times that Pulte appeared to be counting employees who had finished their tours of duty at ODNI and were returning to their home agencies as planned. He also appeared to include unfilled positions at the National Counterterrorism Center and other parts of ODNI in the terminations tally, according to the report.