The Senate on Friday confirmed Michael Waltz, the former national security adviser, to serve as the top United States diplomat to the United Nations.
All but two Democrats opposed Mr. Waltz’s nomination, arguing that he had shown himself to be unfit to hold a top foreign policy post when it was revealed earlier this year that he had discussed war plans with top officials in a Signal chat to which he had inadvertently invited a journalist — and then was unwilling to admit the mistake.
He was confirmed on a 47-to-43 vote, with Democratic Senators Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, and John Fetterman of Pennsylvania joining Republicans in support.
President Trump nominated Mr. Waltz for the job of ambassador to the United Nations after removing him as national security adviser in May amid the fallout over the news about the Signal chat, in which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other top officials discussed the details of a military operation in Yemen.
He ascends to the ambassador role just before world leaders gather in New York next week for the U.N. General Assembly.
Mr. Waltz, a former member of the House who defined himself as a Republican hawk on defense and national security, has taken the position, shared by the president, that the United States shoulders an outsize financial burden at the U.N.
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