Several National Security Council staffers were placed on leave on Friday, according to CNN.
The Trump Administration is currently overhauling the National Security Advisor team.
The NSC staffers were given less than an hour to clear out their desks, CNN reported.
CNN reported:
The Trump administration has put multiple officials at the National Security Council at the White House on administrative leave on Friday as part of a restructuring under interim National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, according to two US officials and another source familiar with the matter.
CNN previously reported that a significant overhaul of the body in charge of coordinating the president’s foreign policy agenda was expected in the coming days, including a staff reduction and a reinforced top-down approach with decision-making concentrated at the highest levels.
Officials were given less than hour to clean out their desks, two of the sources said.
In recent weeks staffers were being re-interviewed by the Office of the Presidential Personnel as the reshaping of the office was taking place, sources said. One of the questions asked was what officials thought was the appropriate size of the NSC, one source said.
Trump’s National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and his top deputy Alex Wong were fired earlier this month.
Last month Jeffrey Goldberg, the anti-Trump editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, claimed he was accidentally added to a secure Signal group chat where top Trump administration officials discussed sensitive military operations against Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen.
A screenshot of the Signal group clearly shows Mike Waltz added Jeffrey Goldberg to the “Houthi PC small group.”
President Trump fired Waltz and for the interim, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will serve as National Security Advisor.
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