Trump Will Be Limited To A Smaller National Security Council Staff
President-elect Donald Trump’s National Security Council will be limited to 200 staff members, the result of legislation arising from a sense that both President Barack Obama and President George W. Bush before him had failed to keep the group’s size in check.
The new limit was tucked into the 1,587-page National Defense Authorization Act, which is now on its way to Obama’s desk after passage by the Senate on Thursday. The House had approved it on Dec. 2.
Trump’s transition team did not respond to a query about its view on the change.
Lawmakers on both the House and Senate Armed Services Committees started looking for ways to rein in the size of the council two years ago, amid reports that Obama’s NSC had upward of 400 staffers.
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