Overview

• The Trump administration has initiated loyalty screenings for 160 career civil servants assigned to the National Security Council (NSC).
• Staffers have been instructed to work from home temporarily while their roles and alignments are reviewed by senior officials.
• National Security Advisor Mike Waltz is overseeing the restructuring, moving holdover detailees from the Biden administration back to their home agencies.
• The administration is bringing in new detailees, including some who served during Trump’s first term, to support the president’s policy priorities.
• This effort is part of broader executive actions by Trump to reshape the federal workforce, including reinstating Schedule F to ease the removal of civil servants deemed disloyal.