Eight months after retaking office, President Donald Trump is inching closer to the Senate confirming his United Nations ambassador nominee.
Mike Waltz, his nominee to be United Nations ambassador, was revoted 11-10 out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday after Democrats forced the Republican majority to reconsider dozens of Trump nominees over a rules snafu.
The same two panel members crossed party lines as they did in a previous vote to advance Waltz: ranking member Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) voted “yes” and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) voted “no.”
Waltz, Trump’s former national security advisor who was removed from his post shortly after the Signalgate leak of sensitive military plans to a journalist, was initially advanced by the committee in July but was among the nominees Democrats said were
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