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According to the Financial Times, President Donald Trump has initiated a sweeping downsizing of the White House’s National Security Council (NSC), dismissing dozens of staff members, placing others on administrative leave, and instructing many detailees to return to their home agencies.
The FT reports that the restructuring was described by one insider as a “liquidation. The news outlet said that Ivan Kanapathy, the NSC’s senior director for Asia, remains in his role, though his China-focused team has been let go.
Along with the Financial Times, CNN and Axios have also confirmed the NSC shake-up, which comes three weeks after Trump removed his first national security adviser, Mike Waltz. Leadership of the NSC has been temporarily assigned to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, with only a select number of senior directors retained.
This is developing news and will be updated as more information is available.