Top Democrats overseeing national intelligence fear President Donald Trump’s controversial pick for Director of National Intelligence could sow chaos in national security matters — especially ahead of the midterm elections.

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have expressed outrage toward Trump tapping Bill Pulte, the director of the Housing Finance Agency who has no national security experience, to temporarily lead the nation’s 18 intelligence agencies for roughly 200 days.

But Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, warned that Pulte could cause damage to voter integrity well beyond his term by elevating the president’s unfounded claims of mass voter fraud.

“What he could do is take a single piece of intelligence that may not be corroborated or make something up and say, ‘Country X is going to interfere or is sending people to encourage non-citizens to vote,’ and be used as an excuse for Trump to bring in ICE, federal troops, close down elections, seize polling stations,” Warner told CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday.

Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, predicted Pulte would “do whatever” to “do the president’s political laundry” and called his temporary appointment “the worst and probably most dangerous” of the administration.

Pulte has displayed unwavering loyalty to Trump and, over the last year, used government housing paperwork to accuse Trump’s perceived political enemies of engaging in criminal behavior through mortgage fraud.

His actions have raised alarm bells with lawmakers who fear Pulte’s access to sensitive intelligence could allow him to push Trump’s politically motivated agenda.

“He’s going to do whatever it is that he believes is in the president’s political interest and there is no way that the authorities and assets of the intelligence community can be in the hands of an individual who showed his sole reason for being in Washington is to do the president’s political laundry,” Himes said Sunday.

Rep. Seth Magaziner, the top Democrat on the House Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, told CNN this week that Pulte was only selected for the role because “he has shown a willingness to use the levers of government to attack the president’s political opponents.

In response to concerns, the White House’s Rapid Response X account called lawmakers “deranged losers” who are “resorting to conjuring up twisted conspiracy theories because [Pulte’s] track record of success speaks for itself.”

For years, Trump has baselessly claimed the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” from him through mass voter fraud, despite election infrastructure experts, state audits, federal judges and members of his own administration concluding there was no widespread evidence of widespread vote manipulation in an election he lost.

Election experts had consistently assured voters that U.S. elections are extremely secure.

But Trump has already has used the intelligence agency to investigate 2020 election results.

He previously directed his outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to join investigators in Fulton County, Georgia, to seize ballots from the election.

Although Pulte’s role is only in an “acting” capacity, he is allowed to remain in it for 210 days, allowing him to fulfill some of the president’s objectives within that time.

“He’s a very smart guy and he may find out some things about the rigged elections, etc., etc,.” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office this past week. “I think he’d like to do it.”