‘It’s Marco vs. the Deep State’: Trump Administration to Overhaul National Security Council

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The next bastion of the Deep State to get targeted for its bureaucratic bloat is the National Security Council, and this battle is not starting a moment too soon. The NSC is a hornet’s nest of appeasers, advocates for endless wars, and far-leftists who despise President Trump and his administration, think they know better how to conduct foreign policy despite their ever-lengthening string of failures, and will do everything they can to undermine what Trump tries to do. But now, enter Marco Rubio.

Fox News reported Friday that Trump and Rubio “are continuing to overhaul the National Security Council and shift its main functions to other agencies like the State and Defense departments.” Former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz started the ball rolling when “he ordered 160 NSC staffers off the job pending a comprehensive review of the agency’s alignment with Trump’s agenda.” Now, as Waltz moves on to become UN ambassador in the wake of the Signal kerfuffle, the resistance against the Deep State at the NSC will continue.

The left will, of course, howl yet again about Trump’s fascism, but if the roles were reversed, we would be hearing endless tales from the establishment media about the coterie of reactionary subversives in the NSC who were wildly exceeding their authority and trying to subvert the noble leftist president’s agenda. Like all other presidents, Trump deserves to have a governmental apparatus that does his lawful bidding and doesn’t try to obstruct it. After all, it was he who was elected to the presidency, not the faceless leftist NSC bureaucrats who decide that his policies are unwise and that the opposite of them will be implemented.

And so “the current plans to upend the agency would include whittling down the size of the National Security Council, which the Trump White House believes is full of long-term, bureaucratic staffers who don’t align with Trump’s agenda.” An unnamed White House official said: “The NSC is the ultimate Deep State. It’s Marco vs. the Deep State. We’re gutting the Deep State.” According to Axios, Trump and Rubio plan to “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.

Rubio explained: “The right-sizing of the NSC is in line with its original purpose and the president’s vision. The NSC will now be better positioned to collaborate with agencies.” And better positioned, one hopes, to do what it was supposed to do when it was originally established: enact the president’s agenda, rather than interfere with it on behalf of the president’s political opponents.

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