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Audacy on MSNTrump admin plans to target 'Deep State' with national security cutsSince taking office in January, President Donald Trump has embarked on making lots of changes. His latest moves have been targeted toward what his admin considers the “Deep State” in Washington D.C.
The White House National Security Council is being restructured, weeks after Marco Rubio took over the powerful national security adviser role.
Dozens of staffers at the White House National Security Council were abruptly dismissed on Friday as the Trump administration undertook a sweeping effort to downsize the influential coordinating body, according to individuals familiar with the matter.
The Trump administration is overhauling the National Security Council after it announced former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz would depart his post overseeing the agency.
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Tampa Free Press on MSNTrump’s National Security Council Shake-Up Continues: More Staffers Axed FridayThe Trump administration dismissed an unspecified number of National Security Council (NSC) staffers on Friday, The Washington Post reported, as part of a vast restructuring orchestrated by President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
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AlterNet on MSN'Unprofessional and reckless': Trump and Rubio ripped for gutting national security bodyThe Trump administration placed over 100 National Security Council (NSC) staff members at the White House on administrative leave on Friday as part of a reorganization led by interim national security adviser and Secretary of State Marco Rubio,
The move follows the recent ouster of National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, who had taken a more traditional Republican approach to foreign policy.
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ABP News on MSNTrump Orders Major Layoffs At National Security Council, Slashing Staff And Restructuring AgencyIn an overhaul of the White House National Security Council (NSC), dozens of staff members were dismissed on Friday as part of US President Donald Trump’s initiative to scale back the agency’s size and influence.
President Trump initiates a significant restructuring of the National Security Council (NSC), reducing its size and scope. The changes shift focus from policy-making to implementing the President's agenda,
Under the plan, the NSC would shrink and shift from making recommendations to the president to carrying out his orders.
The plans involve slashing the number of staffers in the NSC to less than 150, according to three people familiar with the restructuring.