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President Donald Trump And Secretary of State Marco Rubio has led plans for overhaul of the National Security Council and transfer his main functions to other agencies such as state and defense departments.
This move is the latest effort to reduce the federal agencies and comes weeks after Trump has announced the former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz He would leave his place in the White House, which oversee the agency.
Trump announced the same day that Waltz was nominated for the Ambassador of the United Nations.
President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the oval office of the White House in Washington, DC, April 7, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
Plans to increase the agency would include a size reduction National Security Councilwhich Trump’s White House believes is full of long -term, bureaucratic employees who are not aligned with Trump’s daily order.
In addition, the restructuring of Andy Barker will transfer national security advisers to Vice -President JD Vance, and Robert Gabriel, Assistant President of Politics, in the roles that serve as deputy national security advisers.
Axios was the first to report Restructuring plans for Trump administration Trump. The White House official was confirmed by Axios’s reporting Fox News Digital.
White house official involved in planning said Trump and Rubio triggers a change in an attempt to target the so -called “deep state” of Washington.
“The NSC is a top -notch deep condition. It is Marco against the deep state. We pull out a deep state,” said Axios White House.
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State Secretary Marco Rubio speaks as President Donald Trump, to the right, watching the cabinet meeting in the White House cabinet in Washington, DC, April 30, 2025. (Getty Images)
The National Security Council is in the White House and provides the president of the guidelines on issues of national security, military and external affairs.
Waltz’s departure from the agency followed participating with other administration officials, such as Pete Hegseth’s Defense Minister, in the controversy of the signal chat due to the Houthis strike plans in March.
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Defense Secretary of Peta Hegsetth stands as President Donald Trump (not in the picture) meets by French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House in Washington, DC, February 24, 2025. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
Since the departure of Waltz earlier this month, Rubio has taken over the role of national security adviser. In addition to conducting a state department and served as an acting archivist’s duties and an acting administrator of the US Agency for International Development, which the administration aims to disassemble this year.
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Fox News Digital was the first to report that State Department had planned to absorb the remaining operations and USAID programs lead So, it would no longer function as an independent agency. This move requires a decrease in thousands of staff members in an attempt to reinforce the effectiveness of existing, “saving” foreign assistance programs, according to the resulting digital digital memory of the State Department.
Fox News’ Emma Colton contributed to this report.
