Maybe don’t trash people who have chosen national security as their life’s work late on a Friday afternoon before Memorial Day weekend. Secretary of State and acting national security adviser Marco Rubio did exactly that on Friday.

Dozens of White House National Security Council staffers were fired Friday as part of a “total overhaul” being conducted by interim national security adviser and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “It’s a total overhaul,

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.

Marco Rubio was once one of Trump biggest rivals. Now he is the most powerful Cabinet member, holding four highly-coveted position. Here is how he did it.

President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have orchestrated a vast restructuring of the National Security Council, reducing its size and transferring many of its powers to the State and Defense departments.

The State Department’s reorganization plans will cut or consolidate more than 300 of the agency’s offices and bureaus as part of a massive overhaul seeking to streamline the department and cut red tape.

The drastic restructuring, revealed by Marco Rubio, the acting national security adviser, is likely to encourage the president’s preferred style of top-down decision-making in foreign affairs.

Dozens of employees were reportedly relieved from their positions with the National Security Council, with an eye towards downsizing the agency's workforce.

The Secretary of State said he and his allies would be “aggressively” revoking the visas of Chinese nationals.

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

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