Washington [US], May 2: US President Donald Trump on Thursday said he was nominating National Security Adviser Mike Waltz to become the United Statesambassador to the United Nations, in the first major government reshuffle since taking office for a second term.
It comes following media reports suggesting Waltz would be sacked from his post, after he was involved in the leaking of confidential information on USmilitary strikes in Yemen in a group chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal.
"I am pleased to announce that I will be nominating Mike Waltz to be the next United States Ambassador to the United Nations,"Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
"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." State Secretary of State Marco Rubio will serve as national security adviser "in the interim,"Trump said.
Waltz, who was involved in the release of confidential information through a leaked Signal group chat that included a reporter, is expected to leave his post soon, broadcasters CBS, Fox News and CNN reported.
Reacting to the reports about Waltz leaving his post, Democrats in the House Oversight Committee said they would continue to investigate the administration's "carelessness with national security". In a post on X, they wrote that Waltz "should've been fired months ago" along with Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The committee is the main investigative committee in the US House of Representatives.
In March, messages were exchanged in a Signal chat between high-ranking US officials about USmilitary strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen. Waltz apparently accidentally invited Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, to the group chat. (Agencies)
Source: Qatar Tribune
