Trump reduces the National Security Council in the large foreign policy change: NPR

President Trump ordered massive cuts to the National Security Council of the White House and sent dozens of political experts on Friday, one of the officials who left loosely, said NPR.

The official said that the layoffs were abrupt. The employees were notified at 4:30 p.m. and asked to go at 5 p.m. The cuts went deep. In the Department of the Middle East, for example, 10 employees went to five.

The aim of the revision is to eliminate bureaucracy and duplication, with most of the parts of the operation returning to their home departments and agencies, a second source with direct knowledge of the plans announced NPR. The source spoke under the condition of anonymity to protect private conversations.

After the cuts, the NSC remains approximately the same size as it was at the end of Trump's first term, the source said. Spokesman for the White House and the National Security Council did not respond to inquiries about comments.

The NSC – mainly from political experts from the borrowing of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pentagon, the secret services and other national security weapons of the government – gives the President information and advice for his greatest diplomatic and security decisions. But it played a smaller role in Trump's second term.

Instead, Trump has more on Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, the envoys of the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, the finance minister Scott Bessent and others supported in his cabinet than he makes foreign policy decisions instead of making recommendations from the NSC.

On May 1st, Trump dismissed his national security advisor Mike Waltz-Den Head of the NSC-Effectively in the first major release of his top ranks. He said that he was nominated by Waltz as the United Nations ambassador.

Since then, Rubio has headed the NSC in a very unusual double role. The change was made after Waltz accidentally invited a journalist to a private text chat in which military plans for US strikes discussed the Houthis in Yemen.

Foreign Minister Marco Rubio testifies to the Capitol Hill on Wednesday. The National Security Council has shrunk its influence in Trump's second term when the President is increasingly dependent on Rubio and other administrative officials for foreign policy advice.

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Trump also shrunk the NSC in its first term

Towards the end of his first term, Trump also urged to reduce the NSC. The overhaul was designed by Robert O'Brien, Trump's fourth and final national security advisor in his first term.

O'Brien, now chairman of Consultancy American Global Strategies, wrote at the beginning of this month that Trump presented a similar challenge during his second term, and said that the NSC was too big with too many “holding bodies” of earlier administrations that attempted to lead politics. This article was one of the catalysts for the cuts, such as the now more expensive NSC official who spoke to NPR.

O'Brien said Trump had around 110 employees at the NSC until the end of his first term and saw space for further consolidation.

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