WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Sunday that Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, is stepping down and that he will nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe, R., Texas, to take over the role.

Trump said on Twitter that Coats would leave Aug. 15. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did a spokesman for Ratcliffe. Coats, a former GOP senator from Indiana, stepped into the role as Trump’s first director of national intelligence in March 2017.