FACT CHECK: Spin Aside, Trump's National Security Council Has A Very Big Change

FACT CHECK: Spin Aside, Trump's National Security Council Has A Very Big Change Enlarge this image toggle caption Carolyn Kaster/AP Carolyn Kaster/AP Holding up papers with highlighted text, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said little has changed as it relates to the National Security Council between the Trump, Obama and Bush administrations. In fact, Trump's Principals Committee, as compared with Obama's, does exactly that : Trump 2017 "The PC shall have as its regular attendees the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, the Assistant to the President and Chief Strategist, the National Security Advisor, and the Homeland Security Advisor. The Counsel to the President, the Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs, and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget may attend all PC meetings.." Sponsor Message Obama 2009 -- Presidential Policy Directive — 1 "The NSC Principals Committee will continue to be the senior interagency forum for consideration of policy issues affecting national security, as it has been since 1989. The Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor, the Deputy Secretary of State, the Counsel to the President, and the Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs shall be invited to attend every meeting of the NSC/PC.." Compared with George W. Bush's, Trump's has far more people in the Principals Committee. "Under the president's announced structure, Bannon has eclipsed the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Director of National Intelligence on the National Security Council.