The Biden administration inherited a set of foreign policy and national security institutions in serious need of repair. An overreliance on the military combined with emerging challenges that the existing infrastructure is ill-suited to address has showcased the need to shift away from an approach that defines American national interests primarily as security from foreign threats. The need for rebalancing the U.S. approach to national security was made even more clear by the January 6 insurrection, in which pro-Trump extremists violently stormed the U.S. Capitol. Consistent with CAP’s recommendations, the Biden administration has taken a number of steps to repair trust in these institutions and recalibrate the U.S. approach to national security, including: