This is honestly pretty alarming—gutting the National Security Council just sounds like another way for Trump to sideline experienced voices and pack the government with loyalists. Cutting out career officials means losing the people who actually know what they’re doing, all in the name of “streamlining.” Centralizing more power in the White House is the opposite of checks and balances. This feels less like efficiency and more like setting the stage for rash, politicized decisions on national security.