The Senate voted on Friday to confirm President Donald Trump’s nomination of Michael Waltz to serve as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Waltz is best known for Signalgate, which kicked off when the high-ranking official invited a journalist to a top-secret group chat that revealed classified information on military strikes.
Waltz was confirmed on a vote of 47-43. Only one Republican, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, voted against the nomination while all of the other Republicans voting backed Waltz. Waltz also had the support of three Democrats: Sens. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Mark Kelly of Arizona, and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire.
Back in March, when Waltz was national security adviser, he invited The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a private chat in the Signal