Tammy Duckworth Says Mike Waltz Will Have 'Brutal' Confirmation Hearing For U.N. Ambassador

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Source: Huff Post

May 4, 2025, 06:20 PM EDT


Sen. Tammy Duckworth said on Sunday that Mike Waltz can expect a “brutal” confirmation hearing to be United Nations ambassador, after he abruptly stepped down last week as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser. “It will be a brutal, brutal hearing. He’s not qualified for the job, just by nature of the fact that he participated in this Signal chain,” the Illinois Democrat told Margaret Brennan on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.”

Duckworth was referring to the massive national security scandal earlier this year, when The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief was inadvertently added to a group chat on Signal that included several Cabinet-level officials – including Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, among others. The leaked chat revealed that said leaders were using the unclassified communication line to share classified minute-by-minute details of planned military strikes on Yemen.

Every person in the Signal chat should be fired for not speaking up, Duckworth said Sunday, calling Hegseth the “most untrained, inadequate secretary of defense in our nation’s history.” But almost immediately after reports revealed that Waltz was stepping down as national security adviser, Trump announced plans to nominate him as ambassador to the United Nations.

“He’s failing up, right? He is failing in his job and getting promoted to be ambassador,” Duckworth said. “That’s not what our nation needs at the United Nations. This is a very perilous time for our national security.”

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[elocs]

1. Why didn't all of Trump's unqualified nominations have brutal confirmation hearings? n/t

[PSPS]

2. Even if they were (and some were), they'd still have been confirmed.

It's a rubber stamp.

[elocs]

3. Of course they will, the as they would be if they were qualified Democratic nominations.

So why bother at all? Why bother with any debate since Republicans have the votes? Because this is an important nomination and the only one happening right now.

[Ray Bruns]

4. Which is why in reality Mike Waltz was fired. Stinky wants the senate to do his dirty work for him.

[travelingthrulife]

5. So what. the republicans will still install him.

[angrychair]

6. Not one damn Democratic vote

For him or any nomination. Democratic Senators should not be enabling his agenda. They should not be compitulating to his demands for any reason.

[mdbl]

7. Don't expect a good result from this senate

all the worthless Repugs will vote for him anyway since they are so afraid of their own shadows.

[Hotler]

8. How "brutal"? Chuck Schumer "brutal"?

Asking for a room full of friends

[AZ8theist]

9. Are we talking "strongly worded letter" kind of brutal?? Or just the typical capitulation type of brutal?

Unless they REJECT him outright, this is just more useless theater.

[Hekate]

10. Senator Tammy Duckworth is one of my heroes