On Friday, the Senate confirmed the former National Security Advisor (NSA) Mike Waltz as the next US Ambassador at the UN, officially occupied the final open position in the Cabinet of President Donald Trump after eight months of delay and withdrawn nominated.
Waltz’s confirmation followed after the Bipartisan vote, which came after the procedural failure returned its nomination for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for a second vote at the beginning of the week.
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The Senate did not vote for an independent matter that would formally determine the US representative at the General Assembly for the objections of the Democrats, according to a person who is familiar with the Senate. Nevertheless, the White House said Waltz will be able to participate in the UN annual meeting as a US representative in the UN Security Council next week.
A separate person to be announced will represent the US during the General Assembly, as stated by the Associated Press.
“As President Trump imagined today, he will imagine the historical speech of the UN General Assembly, where he will discuss his unprecedented record in ensuring peace around the world,” said White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly.
“Under the leadership of this president, our country is again strong, which has made the whole globe more stable. Thanks to today’s confirmation vote, Mike Waltz will also represent the United States as Ambassador.”
His confirmation of silence swirls questions about what kind of political capital the White House he claims to make him sit as an ambassador.
It is not clear why Waltz was not advanced before the Democrats used a procedural step last week, given that its nomination moved from the committee with bipartisan support last month.
A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry said that he worked closely with the White House “to make each of our nominees as quickly as possible” including Waltz.
The Democratic Congress assistant criticized the administration this week and claimed that there was no “urgency” to ensure the confirmation of Mike Waltz before the UN General Assembly, which will start with President Trump on Tuesday.
Waltz was once nsa, but …
Waltz, who briefly served as Trump’s National Security Advisor, was released in May after unintentionally added Jeffrey Goldberg, Atlantic magazine editor to the group text using the encrypted message for sending messages.
The escape launched a storm after Goldberg wrote the first person’s account to get a connection from what seemed to be Waltz on March 11 on Signal, popular encrypted services sent by journalists and government officials in the United States.
Although it denies that it is removed from this position, Waltz claims that chatting complied with the standards of cyber security of administration.
The General Inspector of the Pentagon is currently investigating the incident.
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Trump tapped Waltz in May to represent the US at the UN after the withdrawal of the previous nominee, representative of Elis Stefanik, for concern for most Republicans. During his confirmation hearing of the Senate a month later, Waltz repeated the priorities of his bosses-Trump and Foreign Minister Marco Rubio-O to enforce the main reforms of the 80-year international organization.
Who is Mike Waltz?
Mike Waltz is a three -year Republican Congressman of St. Augustine Beach in Florida and has been represented by the Dayton Beach since 2019. The well -known Chinese hawk, Waltz was also the first green beret chosen for the congress.
Waltz worked in the house of armed services and intelligence committees and was an open defense attorney of the diversity of diversity, capital and integration into the army and its academies, as the Newston Beach News-Journal states.
Before his congress career, Waltz worked as a director of defensive policy in the Pentagon under the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Gates during the administration George W. Bush.
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According to the USA, Today also worked as an advisor to fight terrorism to Vice President Dick Cheney in the White House.
With 27 years of service in the US Army and the National Guard, Waltz’s military career is distinguished. A graduate of the Military Institute in Virginia was commissioned as a lieutenant, became a green beret and served in special power. He put on the fight against the Middle East, Africa and Afghanistan zones several times and earned four bronze stars, two of whom were for Valor.
In addition to his military service, Waltz founded Metis Solutions, a defensive and intelligence contracting company, which he sold in 2020, according to the US, he reportedly earned between $ 5 and $ 25 million.
In his book “Hard Truths: Think and Lead Like and Green Beret”, published at the beginning of this year, Waltz outlined a comprehensive strategy for discouraging aggression from China.
Waltz on UN
Waltz’s arrival will coincide with the time of major changes for the UN, as this year he is still winding on Trump’s decision to reduce foreign aid financing, which was extremely influenced by his humanitarian aid agencies and predicted a further reduction in the US financing to the UN annual budget.
“We should have one place in the world where everyone can talk – where China, Russia, Europe and the development world can combine and resolve conflicts,” Waltz told the senators. “But after 80 years it is carried out of the main mission of peacekeeping.”
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It is important for America to have a confirmed permanent UN representative.
“For America, it is important to have a confirmed permanent representative of the UN,” said Robert Wood, a former representative of the US Ambassador. “But he has a hard job when he tries to make a case for many positions of foreign policy Maga, which will certainly meet with the great opposition in the UN”
(With AP, USA Today)
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