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| Trump orders huge purge at crucial agency [NSC] that's pivotal for Americans' safety | ||||
| 2025-05-24 | ||||
The move will see the ouster of some political appointees and return many career government employees back to their home agencies. The number of staff at the NSC is expected to be significantly reduced, according to the officials, who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive personnel matter. CNN reported over 100 employees are going to be given a pink slip in the mass reshuffle. The shakeup is just the latest shoe to drop at the NSC, which is being made over after the ouster early this month of Mike Waltz over the SignalGate scandal. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been serving as national security adviser since the ouster of Waltz, who was nominated to serve as Trump's UN ambassador. The move is expected to elevate the importance of the State Department and Pentagon in advising Trump on important foreign policy decisions. The NSC, created during the Truman administration, is an arm of the White House tasked with advising and assisting the president on national security and foreign policy and coordinating among various government agencies. Trump was frustrated in his first term by political appointees and advisers who he felt gummed up his 'America First' agenda. There were roughly 395 people working at the NSC, including about 180 support staff, according to one official. About 90 to 95 of those being ousted are policy or subject matter experts seconded from other government agencies. They will be given an opportunity to return to their home agencies.
Waltz was ousted weeks after Trump fired several NSC officials, just a day after the influential far-right activist Laura Loomer raised concerns directly to him about staff loyalty. Loomer told journalist Tara Palmeri earlier this month that she had sounded the alarm about Waltz's anti-Trump past and claimed he hadn't vetted his staff to weed out liberals. Waltz has been a lightning rod for controversy in the still-nascent second Trump administration. He has been to blame for accidentally leaking military plans to the press via an unfortunate Signal group chat. And the White House, days into the administration, sidelined about 160 NSC aides, sending them home while the administration reviewed staffing and tried to align it with Trump´s agenda. The aides were career government employees, commonly referred to as detailees. This latest shakeup amounts to a 'liquidation' of NSC staffing with both career government detailees on assignment to the NSC being sent back to their home agencies and several political appointees being pushed out of their positions, according to the person familiar with the decision. It wasn´t just Loomer who viewed Waltz suspiciously. He was viewed with a measure of skepticism by some in the MAGA world who saw the former Army Green Beret and three-term congressman as too tied to Washington's foreign policy establishment. On Russia, Waltz shared Trump´s concerns about the high price tag of extensive U.S. military aid to Ukraine. But Waltz also advocated for further diplomatically isolating President Vladimir Putin - a position that was out of step with Trump, who has viewed the Russian leader, at moments, with admiration for his cunning in dealings with Trump´s predecessors. His more hawkish rhetoric on Iran and China, including U.S. policy toward Taiwan, seemed increasingly out of step with Trump. Before getting rid of Waltz, the president fired several members of his National Security Council team. The individuals fired were Brian Walsh, Thomas Boodry and David Feith. The president - setting aside belligerent rhetoric about taking over Greenland from Denmark - has tilted more toward military restraint and diplomacy in facing some of the United States' most challenging issues with adversaries.
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| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #5 American's safety vs Globalist agenda |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-05-24 10:11 |
| #4 huge purge at crucial agency [NSC] that's pivotal for Americans' safety It is early in the day, but /me puts a chip on "pivotal for American's safety" as the Phrase of the Day. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2025-05-24 08:26 |
| #3 Maybe it's time to start ending rule by lawyers and returning to rule by law? Just asking for a friend. |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-05-24 08:05 |
| #2 The more they block and get away with, the more they will surely block. Our Supreme Court appears to be a near total failure. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2025-05-24 07:35 |
| #1 There will be a judge who blocks this. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2025-05-24 07:33 |