{"id":28994,"date":"2025-05-23T22:40:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=28994"},"modified":"2025-05-23T22:40:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:40:21","slug":"donald-trump-dismisses-dozens-of-national-security-council-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=28994","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump dismisses dozens of National Security Council officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\">Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington, business and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=3a21c023-cb8d-468c-82e2-fb029a13fd32&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Donald Trump has dramatically shrunk the White House\u2019s National Security Council by firing some officials, placing others on administrative leave and ordering many secondees to return to their home agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Several people familiar with the firings said the NSC, which is being run temporarily by secretary of state Marco Rubio, had retained some staff, mostly senior directors, while eliminating dozens of positions in the office.<\/p>\n<p>The move, which one person described as a \u201cliquidation\u201d, comes three weeks after Trump fired Mike Waltz as his first national security adviser, the top position at the NSC. <\/p>\n<p>The officials who lost their positions were notified on Friday afternoon about the move, which followed weeks of speculation about an imminent purge of the security officials.<\/p>\n<p>Three people familiar with the dismissals said Ivan Kanapathy, the senior director for Asia, remained but his China team had been let go.<\/p>\n<p>Robert O\u2019Brien, who served as national security adviser in the first Trump administration, recently wrote an OpEd calling for the NSC to be cut to 60 officials. The NSC, which traditionally has served as a coordinating office but has sometimes been used to centralise power in the White House, had over 200 officials during the Biden administration. <\/p>\n<p>Some supporters said the move would help Trump by reducing the number of officials from other agencies who might not support his \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d agenda. But others questioned how it might affect broader US policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile it might seem a hobbling bureaucratic move because the NSC\u2019s purpose is to staff the president, its significance is about far more,\u201d said one former NSC official. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy whittling down the NSC staff to almost nothing, you kneecap the US government\u2019s ability to generate foreign policy options, or to potentially act as a break on Trump\u2019s preferences. All that remains is presidential power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NSC could not immediately be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/3a21c023-cb8d-468c-82e2-fb029a13fd32\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}