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Draining the Swamp

Good luck with President Donny getting his proposed budget cuts though Mrs. Pelosi’s swamp. How ever, the President, and not Congress, control White House staffing. So with a pause in impeachment hysteria, a promise made is a promise kept, from Washington Examiner [1]:

President Trump is making good on his promises to “drain the swamp” and cut Obama-era holdovers from his staffs, especially the critical and recently controversial National Security Council.

Officials confirmed that Trump and national security adviser Robert O’Brien have cut 70 positions inherited from former President Barack Obama, who had fattened the staff to 200.

[…]Since entering the White House, Trump has relied on staffs smaller than previous administrations and has noted how prior president’s had a much smaller NSC team.

O’Brien recently said that former President George W. Bush handled the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with 100 NSC aides, a model he is instituting.