The White House National Security Council is being restructured, weeks after Marco Rubio took over the powerful national security adviser role.

Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has embarked on making lots of changes. His latest moves have been targeted toward what his admin considers the “Deep State” in Washington D.C.

Dozens of staffers at the White House National Security Council were abruptly dismissed on Friday as the Trump administration undertook a sweeping effort to downsize the influential coordinating body, according to individuals familiar with the matter.

The Trump administration is overhauling the National Security Council after it announced former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz would depart his post overseeing the agency.

The Trump administration dismissed an unspecified number of National Security Council (NSC) staffers on Friday, The Washington Post reported, as part of a vast restructuring orchestrated by President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The Trump administration placed over 100 National Security Council (NSC) staff members at the White House on administrative leave on Friday as part of a reorganization led by interim national security adviser and Secretary of State Marco Rubio,

In an overhaul of the White House National Security Council (NSC), dozens of staff members were dismissed on Friday as part of US President Donald Trump’s initiative to scale back the agency’s size and influence.

The move follows the recent ouster of National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, who had taken a more traditional Republican approach to foreign policy.

President Trump initiates a significant restructuring of the National Security Council (NSC), reducing its size and scope. The changes shift focus from policy-making to implementing the President's agenda,

Under the plan, the NSC would shrink and shift from making recommendations to the president to carrying out his orders.

Marco Rubio working on major changes to the National Security Council that would significantly scale it down - The proposed downsizing could reduce the National Security Council from 150 employees down to just 50 or 60,