Trump's final Cabinet pick, Mike Waltz, confirmed by Senate in narrow vote
Mike Waltz becomes UN ambassador as 3 Democrats cross party lines to support his confirmation
By Alex Miller Fox News
Published September 19, 2025 3:38pm EDT
The Senate confirmed the last member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet on Friday after months of delay from Senate Democrats.
Lawmakers confirmed Mike Waltz to be Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations on a bipartisan 47-45 vote. Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa., Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., crossed the aisle to confirm him.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was the lone Republican to vote against his confirmation. He also voted against Waltz’s advancing out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Waltz’s confirmation ends a nearly nine-month gap during which the U.S. was without a representative at the U.N., and it comes as the organization gears up for its General Assembly in New York City next week.
Waltz, a retired Army National Guard colonel and former Green Beret, previously served as a House Republican from Florida before being tapped to serve as Trump’s national security advisor.
However, he was dismissed from his position at the National Security Council following the "Signalgate" controversy after Waltz added a journalist to a group chat with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Vice President JD Vance and others as they discussed strikes in Yemen.
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