Mike Waltz, incoming National Security Advisor under President-elect Donald Trump, stated that all intelligence officials detailed to the National Security Council (NSC) from various federal agencies under President Joe Biden will be asked to resign by 12:01 p.m. Eastern on Inauguration Day. Waltz emphasized the importance of having a team fully aligned with Trump's agenda, highlighting the need to ensure that decisions made by the president are effectively executed across the federal government.
Incoming National Security Advisor Mike Waltz told Breitbart News exclusively that every intelligence official from the various departments and agencies across the federal government currently detailed to the National Security Council at the White House under outgoing President Joe Biden will be expected to vacate the premises by 12:01 p.m. Eastern on Inauguration Day when President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated again.
One of the major problems Trump faced in his first term came from inside the NSC with some of these detailees, as the person who spearheaded the first impeachment of Trump—Alexander Vindman—was one such person. Waltz told Breitbart News that he is taking very serious steps to ensure that there are no more Vindmans. From this point forward, he said, anyone who gets a detailee position on the NSC will be on board with the president’s agenda.
The reason why the NSC is important is it is essentially the process vehicle through which the president can exercise his political muscles in the national security space. Waltz explained that in the interview, and laid out several major policy arenas from Western Hemisphere issues to the Middle East to the Russian war in Ukraine as places where the NSC will be very active in a second Trump term.
But “a lot of” the NSC action this next few years he said would be undoing the damage of the Biden years and returning “to what’s working” including “a return to maximum pressure on Iran” which he said “was absolutely working and will drive them towards a better deal if that’s the direction he wants to go” and a “return to deterrence with Russia.”
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