About Mike Waltz
Michael George Glen Waltz is an American politician, diplomat, businessman, author, and former Army Special Forces officer who has served as the 32nd United States ambassador to the United Nations since September 2025 in the second Trump Administration. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 29th national security advisor from January to May 2025 and was the U.S. representative for Florida's 6th congressional district from 2019 to 2025. He was the first Army Special Forces soldier to be elected to Congress. Waltz received four Bronze Stars while serving in the Special Forces during multiple combat tours in Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Africa. He served in the Bush administration as a defense policy director in the Pentagon and as counterterrorism advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney. Waltz served as NSA for 101 days, the second shortest tenure for a non-acting officeholder in the position (Mike Flynn, Trump's initial first term NSA, lasted 24 days). Waltz won with 56.31% of the vote to Soderberg's 43.69%. The Intercept reported on his role in founding and managing a defense contracting company called Metis Solutions, which had been awarded US government contracts, mostly for training Afghan security forces, worth a total of $930 million.
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