The decision, it turns out, was a unilateral move by the Pentagon championed by its policy chief Elbridge Colby. The official goal of the review is to see if the pact, AUKUS, which involves selling ...

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 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.

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.

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.

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.