Senate Democrats predicting 'brutal' UN ambassador confirmation hearing for Mike Waltz

Senate Democrats are informing that Mike Waltz is going to person a precise hard clip during his confirmation proceeding for the relation of United Nations ambassador. 

"It volition beryllium a brutal, brutal hearing. He's not qualified for the job, conscionable by quality of the information that helium participated successful this Signal chain," Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois told CBS News’ "Face the Nation."  

"Mike Waltz is doing what we telephone – helium is failing up," added Duckworth, a subordinate of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "He is failing successful his occupation and getting promoted to beryllium ambassador. That's not what our federation needs astatine the United Nations." 

"I deliberation it volition beryllium a brutal confirmation hearing," Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia besides said to CNN’s "State of the Union." "I deliberation he's going to person pugnacious questions, not lone from Democrats but from Republicans." 

HEGSETH, SIGNAL QUESTIONS DOG WALTZ AS POTENTIALLY PERILOUS UN AMBASSADOR CONFIRMATION HEARING LOOMS 

Mike Waltz speaks during a tv interrogation astatine the White House connected Thursday, May 1, 2025 successful Washington, D.C. (AP/Alex Brandon)

The White House did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from Fox News Digital connected Monday. 

Waltz has been facing scrutiny aft The Atlantic mag exposed a Signal radical chat that his squad had acceptable up to sermon strikes against the Houthis successful March. 

President Donald Trump said Sunday that helium plans to name a caller nationalist information advisor successful astir six months, telling reporters Waltz did not resign, but was alternatively tapped for an upgraded presumption arsenic the administration’s ambassador to the United Nations. 

TRUMP TO TAP NEW NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR IN 6 MONTHS; CALLS WALTZ MOVE ‘UPGRADE’ 

Then-National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, left, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth basal arsenic President Donald Trump meets French President Emmanuel Macron astatine the White House connected Feb. 24. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)

Democrats look bare to usage Waltz’s information arsenic a forum to aerial grievances against different overseas argumentation leaders successful the Trump medication – peculiarly Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.  

Former National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, left, and President Donald Trump. (Reuters)

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While the nonstop timeline for a imaginable confirmation ballot successful the Senate is unclear, the archetypal hurdle that Waltz indispensable wide is simply a confirmation ballot retired of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Although it is uncertain erstwhile the Senate Foreign Relations Committee volition docket the information proceeding for Waltz and the consequent vote, the committee said his information is simply a "priority." 

Fox News Digital’s Diana Stancy and Greg Wehner contributed to this report.