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Trump Administration Restaffs National Security Council After Cutting Its Size

The West Wing of the White House and Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington.

Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg

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The White House has begun hiring more staff at the National Security Council, people familiar with the matter said, reversing course weeks after President Donald Trump significantly cut the size of the council and as the US confronts a host of foreign-policy crises.

The restaffing is being done at the direction of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has served as acting national security adviser in the months since Mike Waltz was ousted in May. Much of the council was dismissed after Waltz’s exit, as Trump sought to minimize the NSC’s role in foreign-policy decision making.