President Trump's National Security Strategy Sends Messages For Private Sector Priorities

The Trump Administration National Security Strategy (NSS or Strategy) dated November 2025 and released on December 5, 2025, outlines notable priorities that may impact the private sector in 2026 and beyond. Below, we highlight a few aspects of the strategy that provides hints about regulatory activity, opportunities, and challenges in 2026.

Notable elements include prioritizing investment in domestic innovation and growing and on-shoring industrial production. The Strategy prioritizes resilient national infrastructure; a "robust, productive, and innovative energy sector;" defense industrial and defense-related production capacity; and a strong industrial sector capable of meeting both peacetime and wartime manufacturing demands. To support economic growth, the Strategy establishes the U.S. needs to be strong in trade, which demands "closer collaboration between the U.S. Government and the American private sector." Growing the U.S. Financial Sector is tied to