President Donald Trump and his administration continue to clean out the halls of Washington D.C. with a new round of dismissals, suspensions and reassignments.
According to Newsweek, the Trump administration made quite an overhaul at the National Security Council by dismissing dozens of workers, placing others on administrative leave, and issuing reassignments for some.
The shake-up at the White House's NSC came in the wake of the exit of Mike Waltz as the head of the agency in the wake of the Signal chat scandal that caused some level of embarrassment for the administration.
As it stands, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is the acting adviser of the NSC until a replacement can be confirmed by the Senate.
President Trump and his administration are undertaking a massive reorganization of the NSC, which will include firings, suspensions and recalling some of the employees back to their home stations, reports noted.
The overhaul has been described as a sort of "liquidation" of the agency.
Newsweek noted:
NSC Chief of Staff Brian McCormack informed members of the NSC that they had 30 minutes to remove their belongings and exit the building, which is located next to the White House.
Dennis Wilder, a former top NSC official in George W. Bush's administration, told the FT there was "no question that the NSC in the Biden administration had become bloated and was high-handedly trying to implement foreign policy rather than doing its traditional role of co-ordinating the implementation by the rest of the national security establishment."
A major part of the overhaul is that the Trump administration believes the NSC is riddled with those who aren't in line with Trump's agenda.
Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are apparently behind the massive changes, according to Fox News.
The outlet noted:
A White House official involved in the planning said Trump and Rubio are driving the change in an attempt to target Washington’s so-called "Deep State."
"The NSC is the ultimate Deep State. It's Marco vs. the Deep State. We're gutting the Deep State," a White House official told Axios.
The NSC is actually located within the White House, and it functions to serve the president's office, guiding it on national security, military and foreign affairs matters.
The NSC will still exist, though massively shrunk down in size.
A vast majority of Trump's supporters are in favor of gutting the agency, along with several others.
Only time will tell how the new level of efficiency will serve the government and the American people.
