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