President Donald Trump’s national security adviser has sidelined about 160 National Security Council staffers, telling them to work from home while the administration reviews staffing and tries to align it with Trump’s agenda.

White House national security adviser Mike Waltz has ordered a “full review” of personnel at the National Security Council (NSC), starting a process to weed out detailees at the agency who are not aligned with President Trump’s agenda.

The Trump administration is screening the loyalty of approximately 160 career civil servants assigned to the National Security Council. Why it matters: The screenings are part of a larger push by President Trump to reshape the federal workforce that includes staffing the administration with loyalists and making it easier to fire civil servants.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday dismissed criticism from close ally Elon Musk about a $500 billion artificial intelligence project that Trump announced with great fanfare at the White House earlier this week.

Elon Musk, the close Trump adviser who has his own AI company and was notably not at the press conference, erupted Wednesday with a relentless stream of online mockery. “They don’t actually have the money,

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would be open to the possibility of having his billionaire ally Elon Musk buy the U.S. operations of TikTok in his latest comments on the popular social media platform.