During an interview with Breitbart News, incoming National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said the entire National Security Council is going to be removed from position and new staff assigned to the NSC.
Every member is expected by the Trump administration to willingly resign at 12:01pm on inauguration day.
This from theconservativetreehouse.com.
Drastic times call for drastic measures—starting fresh will be the best approach. Actually, a complete change is very much needed:
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The various silos of the DC intelligence and policy institutions send and embed ideologues in the NSC to represent their interests. The only way to deal with it correctly is to remove all of them and vet their replacements.
The way the NSC works is the National Security Advisor oversees a team of political appointees from the president who oversee a wide range of what are called “detailees”—people who work at the various agencies and departments across the federal government who are assigned, or detailed, to work at the White House for a period of time on the NSC in a portfolio in which they demonstrate expertise.
These career intelligence officials come from places as wide-ranging as the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the Pentagon, and other law enforcement and intelligence agencies, and report up to the political appointees atop each major portfolio in the NSC.
The NSC has various issue-specific portfolios like counterterrorism and cyber policy as well as regional portfolios focused on things like the western hemisphere or the Middle East or Europe or Asia. The detailees then help coordinate back to the various agencies and departments so the whole federal government executes on the decisions that the president makes.
Waltz was one of Trump’s first personnel announcements right after he won the presidential election, and since the National Security Advisor position does not require confirmation in the U.S. Senate, he has been one of the most vocal and public figures among the incoming Trump administration since then.
[T]he folks that we’re bringing in are 100 percent aligned with the president’s agenda. Hell, the entire world seems to be aligned with his agenda if you just look at the outreach from world leaders and everybody who wants to come to Mar-a-Lago. So, there’s a little bit of a difference in that everybody was reflexively just against him [the first time] just for the sake of it and the Trump Derangement Syndrome was out of control in 2017.
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Now, after seeing and feeling four years of progressive governance under [Obama-Biden] and seeing the world come unglued, we’re not even seeing the levels of resistance to his agenda that’s just a broader point. But also, the folks we’re bringing in, the key members of my team, have relationships out in these agencies and we know who is completely on board.
Waltz and a few others are fighting to get the right team in place at the NSC so Trump is ready to roll on day one, and there has been “zero issue” in so doing.
Waltz said:
We’re getting strong people in place that are completely aligned with [the President’s] policy. We know who we want to pull in from the agencies to fill that out in terms of detailees.
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It’s also going to be incumbent upon the Cabinet heads to one, I think, cut what is a bloated bureaucracy and then two make sure it’s in line with executing what the president wants to pull together. We’ll be pulling folks together at a working level, at a deputy level, and at a Cabinet level and then when it makes sense getting the president himself involved. I think part of what some of my predecessors struggled with was trying to conform him to this process. Sometimes he knows exactly what he wants to do and he’s already made his decision and that’s fine now it’s just executing.
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Trump has an advantage that really no other modern president has had in that even though he’s been out of office the past four years ahead of his return to the White House in two weeks that he has never stopped thinking about how to handle these major challenges for the nation.
He explained:
[A] lot of it’s a get-back-to-what-was-working, or let’s undo the things that the Obama and Biden team sent us in the wrong direction on and getting us back in the right direction.
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I think the final piece is we’re going to be much more outcome-oriented. I’ve asked the team to lay out for me in their various functions and regions what do they want to have done in four years? What do we want the world or their area to look like? What points or deals do we want to have done?
Walz concluded:
[Trump is] a disrupter and we’re going to be disruptive and innovative and not just accept things because that’s the way it’s always been.
God speed to the Trump-Vance team.
