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...By February, the White House National Security Council, which is the executive branch office forum for national security, military and foreign policy issues, will be reduced to its lowest staffing levels in nearly twenty years.
...President Trump's national security adviser, Robert O'Brien recently told NPR, "We'll probably have about 60 to 70 staffers who've gone back to their home agencies." That will effectively downsize the NSC by nearly a third from the staffing levels when O'Brien took the helm in September, bringing the total to just over 100 people.
...Vindman, who still works at the National Security Council, even drew the ire of the White House Twitter account.
..."When President Obama came into office, he combined the Homeland Security Council staff and the National Security Council staff, into a single national security staff, and that accounted for, at least on paper, a large growth in the size of the National Security Council," Price explained.
...Tom Donilon, who served as National Security Adviser during the Obama administration, told the host of Intelligence Matters, Michael Morell, that he would add more technological expertise to the NSC. "If I were back reorganizing the National Security Council right now, I would have technology at the table," Donilon explained.
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