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President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are continuing to overhaul the National Security Council and shift its main functions to other agencies like the State and Defense ...

The Trump administration on Friday fired roughly half the National Security Council as part of a radical restructuring of that body’s structures and functions.

The National Security Council is traditionally treated as the president’s in-house foreign ... The 1947 National Security Act created the NSC with only an order of organization and function.

White House National Security Council Slashes Staff in Dramatic Restructuring, Sources Say. ... arguing that a number of the positions are duplicative of functions found elsewhere in the government.

Mike Waltz, national security adviser, during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 9, 2025. Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images ...

The drastic restructuring, revealed by Marco Rubio, the acting national security adviser, is likely to encourage the president’s preferred style of top-down decision-making in foreign affairs.

President Donald Trump moved to dramatically downsize the National Security Council, part of a restructuring that could see the group responsible for coordinating and implementing foreign policy ...

White House National Security Council slashes staff in dramatic restructuring, sources say. ... arguing that a number of the positions are duplicative of functions found elsewhere in the government.