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Return borrowed National Security Council staff on day one

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 2, p. 52. Written by Russ Vought.

Return borrowed National Security Council staff on day one

The document says “shouldWho acts: National Security AdvisorHow: internal managementp. 52 in the PDF
What the document says

“the NSA should return all nonessential detailees to their home agencies on their first day in office”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 52

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”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 52
That sentence, in plain words

On day one, send the borrowed staff back. They should go to the agencies they came from.

What this is about

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.

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