Scoop: Trump, Rubio take aim at National Security Council's "Deep State"

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Axios

4 hours ago


President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have orchestrated a vast restructuring of the National Security Council, reducing its size and transferring many of its powers to the State and Defense departments.

Why it matters: Trump's White House sees the NSC as notoriously bureaucratic and filled with longtime officials who don't share the president's vision.

A White House official involved in the planning characterized the reorganization as Trump and Rubio's latest move against what they see as Washington's "Deep State."

"The NSC is the ultimate Deep State. It's Marco vs. the Deep State. We're gutting the Deep State," the official said of the move, which will cut the NSC staff to about half of its current 350 members. Those cut from the NSC will be moved to other positions in government, officials said.

"The right-sizing of the NSC is in line with its original purpose and the president's vision," Rubio told Axios in a statement. "The NSC will now be better positioned to collaborate with agencies."

Zoom in: White House officials point to an NSC structure that's filled with committees and meetings that they say slow down decision-making and produce lots of jargon and acronyms.

There's a "sub-PCC," an advisory body to the "PCC" (Policy Coordination Committees) and they feed the DCs (Deputies Committee), which in turn advise the PC (the Principals Committee of the Cabinet secretaries).

"That's the bottom-to-the-top approach that doesn't work. It's going away," a senior White House official said. "All those things feeding up to principals are the unnecessary piece."

A third senior White House official said the NSC's focus would be to "coordinate and advise — not carry out — policy."

Zoom out: Supporters of the NSC's longtime system have long said it promotes healthy debate and discussion about policies.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2025/05/23/white-house-national-security-council-trump-rubio

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Carrying out Putin's orders.

[erronis]

1. Why not just require all NSC staffers to work at the Kremlin?

None of this "remote" work for Soviet moles.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. So much for security

Hope we don't have another 9 eleven.

[markodochartaigh]

10. I doubt that the

Trump administration could handle a 7-11.

Seriously though, staffing the leadership of every agency with kkklowns even as their workforces are stripped bare, ties with foreign governments are shredded, and "homegrown" reich-wing terrorists are released from prison, it's not difficult to imagine many scenarios which could lead to a terrorist attack. Or, a Reichstag fire.

[stillcool]

3. Understandable....if they still have legitimate

leadership among those who are part of the National Security Council. I don't know how those meetings work, but don't see Donald at all interested in listening to anyone.

[angryxyouth]

4. We don't need no stinkin gaurdrails

Streamed lined war making machine.

[angryxyouth]

5. I forgot

With Congress on a leash nobody to stop him

[wolfie001]

6. christo-fascist weirdos!

[Karasu]

7. 2025 and the government is full of conspiracy theorists using the fucking "deep state" as an excuse to burn the house

down. They are all fucking lunatics.

The GOP insists on mainstreaming every single fucking stupid idea their base on the Internet shits out. This is 10-year-old 4chan/QAnon bullshit and it is literally guiding the policy of our fucking government.

[Martin68]

8. Two problems with that: 1) it could place nation al security in jeopardy, or 2) The know where the bodies are buried and

could bury him.

[Karasu]

11. This regime has made a great, great many decisions over these last 5 months that have placed national security in

jeopardy...so they clearly couldn't give less of a shit about that.

[Martin68]

13. You miss my point. Obviously they don't care about nationals security - but I do. More importantly, they are playing

with fire when they risk the wrath of intelligence services. They have a lot of information and tools at their disposal that could severely damage the administration if they chose to do so. If they get pissed off enough, they may very well choose to do so.

[Karasu]

14. Let us hope so! If they do decide to act, the sooner, the better.

[markodochartaigh]

9. So who will have control over the

Data center in Utah?

[lonely bird]

12. So

Basically, the charlatan at the top who has loaded his (mal)administration with sycophants, toadies and bootlickers all of whom are incompetent now gets to make any decision he wants because advising him otherwise is the deep state.

Storm. The. Headquarters.