Trump’s national security strategy wants spy agencies to watch world supply chains

President Donald Trump participates in the 103rd National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony at the White House Ellipse on December 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong/Getty Images

President Donald Trump’s national security strategy tasks the U.S. intelligence community with monitoring global supply chains as part of a sweeping goal to decouple the nation’s economy from foreign adversaries and advance American economic interests.

The demands listed in the 33-page strategy document published late Thursday reflect how aggressively the Trump administration is directing federal agencies to treat economic policy as a national security matter, and it comes after months of tariff fights that have become a defining flashpoint of the president’s economic agenda.

U.S. spy agencies “will monitor key supply chains and technological advances around the world to ensure we understand and mitigate vulnerabilities and threats to American security and prosperity,” the strategy reads. 

The demands ...