On 2/28/20, Trump announced that he would again nominate Ratcliffe to be DNI Director and after Senate approval, he resigned from the House. Amid concerns that Ratcliffe would politicize the DNI, Ratcliffe pledged to be apolitical. However, Ratcliffe was regarded as using the position to score political points for Trump. Ratcliffe made public assertions that contradicted the intelligence community's own assessments, and sidelined career officials in the intelligence community