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White House senior adviser Steve Bannon attends as President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, Jan. 28, 2017.

Steve Bannon gets permanent seat on Trump’s National Security Council

January 30, 2017Global Politics

In an executive memorandum signed on Saturday, Trump elevated Steve Bannon, the former head of Breitbart News, while downgrading the status of the Director of National Intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the security council’s principals committee.