Return borrowed National Security Council staff on day one
What the document says“the NSA should return all nonessential detailees to their home agencies on their first day in office”
The chapter says the National Security Advisor should send all nonessential detailees back to their home agencies on the first day, so the Administration can proceed without what it calls the personnel land mines left by the previous stewards, and should replace essential detailees as soon as possible with staff aligned to the new President's priorities.
What the document actually says“the NSA should return all nonessential detailees to their home agencies on their first day in office”
On day one, send the borrowed staff back. They should go to the agencies they came from.
Much of this staff is borrowed from other agencies. The book says most of them should be sent back at once. It says they may be loyal to the last president. New staff would replace them.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. The memorandum of January 20, 2025 on returning to in-person work directs agency heads to end remote work arrangements and require employees to return to their duty stations. It is about where federal employees sit, not about sending detailees back to their home agencies, and it says nothing about the staff of the National Security Council. 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.