Limit detailees on the National Security Council staff
What the document says“The next Administration should try to limit the number of detailees to ensure more direct presidential control.”
Detailees are staff lent to the National Security Council from departments and agencies rather than appointed to it. The chapter notes NSC staff has been reduced from a peak of about 400 in 2015 to 100 to 150 professionals, and says the next Administration should try to limit detailees so that the President has more direct control.
What the document actually says“The next Administration should try to limit the number of detailees to ensure more direct presidential control.”
The next president should try to use fewer borrowed staff. Then he would have more control.
One team handles safety and war. It borrows staff from other parts of government. Those staff still work for their old boss too. The book says to borrow fewer of them.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing indexed comes close. The candidates concern space policy, nuclear reactor testing, mental illness treatment, global development policy and a beautification commission. None addresses the staffing of the National Security Council or the use of detailees from departments and agencies. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.