On Friday the president order steep staffing cuts at the National Security Council. The dismissals came near the end of the workday, without notice. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was named head of the NSC after National Security Advisor Mike Waltz was removed from the job following the Signal communication app scandal. The reduced NSC is about the same size as it was near the end of the first Trump presidency.

The order directs federal agencies to exclude additional units from the Federal Labor-Management Relations Program, citing national security reasons. Agencies and subdivisions including units in the Bureau of Reclamation with primary responsibility for hydropower facilities, the International Trade Administration, the Office of the Commissioner for Patents and subordinate units in the Patent and Trademark Office, certain subdivisions of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the United States Agency for Global Media are affected. The order also extends the deadline for any order published by the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs related to exclusions from Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs.