The Trump administration placed a dramatic number of employees of the National Security Council on Administrative License on Friday as part of a review of the agency, multiple media reported.

According to reports, the cleaning of the house was supervised by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who also serves as an interim national security advisor after the expulsion of Mike Waltz.

A White House official told Axios that approximately half of the 350 members of the department were eliminated as part of an effort to climb a department full of employees who do not align with the political agenda of President Donald Trump.

“The NSC is the last deep state,” said a White House official to Axios. “It is a framework against the deep state. We are destroying the deep state,” said the official, noting that the people withdrawn from the NSC will be placed in other government roles.

Rubio also supervised the mass cuts in the State Department last month.

The NSC has the task of advising the president on foreign policy and other issues of national security and helping to coordinate policies in several government agencies.

The United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, supervised the reduction of personnel as part of his role as an interim national security advisor.
The United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, supervised the reduction of personnel as part of his role as an interim national security advisor.

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But another White House official told Axios that the restructured NSC would serve to “coordinate and advise, not carry out, politics.”

People familiar with the matter told CNN that employees received less than an hour to clean their desks. They also said that NSC employees were recently replaced by the presidential personnel office as part of a plan to climb the department.

The familiar sources with the dismissals also told the Washington Post that the affected employees included career officials and appointed politicians.

“The correct size 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 the agencies.”

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The rumors of Trump’s problems with the NSC began to circulate in January, when officials revealed that their officials were questioning the employees of the department about who voted in the 2024 elections and in addition to investigating their political donations and their publications on social networks.

Rubio and the White House spokesmen did not immediately respond to comments requests.