DRASTIC NSC Reducer Trump debate: The fight against the “deep state” puts national security at risk?

As the White House resorts to more than 100 assistants from the National Security Council staff, some former officials and analysts ask if the smallest team can meet the requirements of a dangerous and dangerous security environment.

About half of the team of 350 people from the NSC will move away from what the White House calls a “adequate size” of a bureaucratic body historically formed in large part of career diplomats, many of which are out of the way with the president’s agenda.

Helting originally in loans from agencies such as the State Department and Pentagon are sent back to their departments of origin. Political nominees put on administrative permission have been told that the White House will find other roles for them elsewhere in the administration.

Some former NSC officials told Fox News Digital that it is too early to find out if the review will give rise to a more efficient agency or that a poorly equipped to provide timely intelligence to national security decisions.

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In private, national security sources were questioned if the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who currently works as an interim national security advisor, could reappear the agency to avoid internal power struggles once he returned to his original place.

Michael Allen, a former senior director of the NSC, said that staff changes reflect President Donald Trump’s direct control over key decisions.

“I think people want to bring decisions before the previous presidents,” Allen told Fox News Digital.

The NSC has traced rocky waters since losing national security councilor Mike Waltz after the inadvertently advertising signal chat. His deputy, Alex Wong, also left the agency recently and other auxiliaries, which had a great impact on the decisions of the administration’s foreign policy, were expelled on Friday’s restructuring.

Eric Tager, the principal director of the Middle East’s problems that he traveled with the Steve Witkoff envoy to some of his Iran negotiations, is out. So is Andrew Peek, lead director of Europe and Eurasia, who helped coordinate the approach to the Russian-Ukraine conflict.

Additionally, the restructuring will transfer Andy Barker, a national security advisor to Vice President JD Vance and Robert Gabriel, assistant policy, acting as attached national security advisers.

“This naturally happens in NSCS, the type of stasi we saw in Biden’s administration is highly typical,” said Victoria Coates, a former Trump National Security Director.

He said that President Ronald Reagan had six national security advisers on two president, as well as two acting NSAs.

“For the President, he has a legitimate concern about the NSC from the first term, given what happened, and then, you know, there is no sugar coating: the situation with Signalgate was a problem for NSA Waltz,” continued Coates. “The President is doing actions to get the NSC in a condition that had a complete confidence in this.”

With a thinner NSC, the President is expected to support more in Rubio, the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, and the director of National Intelligence Tlosi Gabbard for his daily intelligence information.

“One thing that makes this administration unique is that he is the president himself and a small circle of advisers who really care and make decisions,” said Brian Katulis, a former NSC officer and a companion of the Middle East Institute. “They simply do not see the need for current intergents as in previous administrations.”

Katulis added that the highest risk is not necessarily lack of intelligence, but lack of coordination.

“Instead of the intel or knowledge gaps, what I would worry about is whether different agencies sing from the same music sheet,” he said.

Fox News Digital has contacted the White House to comment on Friday’s cuts and their intention.

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Others argue that the NSC has inflated and needs reset.

“The NSC under democratic presidents grows at 300, 400 people,” said Alex Gray, an ex -officer of Trump NSC. “It becomes your own department.”

“When I was there, we took up to 110 people doing policies, and it could probably go down 50 and still be effective,” he said.

“You want an NSC that formulates and directs politics, or gives advice to the President, allows you to decide and then implement you? You don’t need hundreds of people to do it.”

But the NSC is the main agency responsible for ensuring that other agencies fit the president’s agenda.

“Instead of preparing options for him, they should take their direction and implement -” said Coates. But he added: “If you take it too far, you will not have the labor to implement these directions from the White House to the departments and agencies that are always larger and better funded than the NSC.”

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“How many heads do you have to combine to do what they do what the President wants them to do? Our experience was in the first term that we needed a good amount of weight in our final to get them to do things they did not want to do, such as designating IRGC as FTO, for example, Coates added.

Even with thinner staff, the NSC is still responsible for managing critical world challenges: from the nuclear conversations of Iran and the war in Ukraine to military competition with China.

This adds added pressure on Rubio, which will be to blame if some crucial intelligence falls through the cracks.

“The big problem is that the national security advisor needs to say that the president has all the information he needs to make a decision,” said Allen.

Fox News Diana Stancy contributed to this report.