- May 2, 2025
Donald Trump Taps Mike Waltz As US Envoy To UN, Assigns NSA Role To Marco Rubio – News18
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Marco Rubio was given an additional charge of the NSA, while Mike Waltz was announced as the US ambassador to the UN.
Trump shuffles his Cabinet (Reuters Image)
US President Donald Trump announced that he would assign the additional charge of National Security Advisor to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and tapped Mike Waltz, who quit his position as NSA on Thursday, as UN ambassador.
“I am pleased to announce that I will be nominating Mike Waltz to be the next United States Ambassador to the United Nations. From his time in uniform on the battlefield, in Congress and, as my National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz has worked hard to put our Nation’s Interests first. I know he will do the same in his new role,” Trump said on Truth Social.
“In the interim, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will serve as National Security Advisor, while continuing his strong leadership at the State Department. Together, we will continue to fight tirelessly to Make America, and the World, SAFE AGAIN,” he added.
This comes hours after Waltz stepped down from his position as the NSA, weeks after the Signal chat leak controversy blew up. Waltz had taken responsibility for the inclusion of a journalist on the group chat meant for discussing war plans related to strikes on rebels in Yemen on March 15.
“I take full responsibility. I built the group. It’s embarrassing. We’re going to get to the bottom of it,” Waltz had said earlier.
Waltz had been under fire from Democrats and others since March after the Signal chat leak made headlines. The Atlantic‘s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, revealed he was added to a Signal group chat on March 15, where top national security officials — including Waltz, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe — were discussing war plans for strikes on rebels in Yemen.
Alex Wong, who served as Waltz’s principal deputy national security advisor, was named in the Signal chat leak earlier this year. According to The Atlantic, Waltz identified Wong in his initial March message as the staffer tasked with organizing a “tiger team” to coordinate the response to the Houthi threat.
“Team – establishing a principles [sic] group for coordination on Houthis, particularly for over the next 72 hours,” Waltz wrote in the group chat. “My deputy Alex Wong is pulling together a tiger team at deputies/agency Chief of Staff level following up from the meeting in the Sit Room this morning for action items and will be sending that out later this evening.”
On April 3, Trump told reporters that several National Security Council staffers had been dismissed following The Atlantic’s report on the Signal chat leak, which described the administration discussing “war plans” for a strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen via text messages.
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