National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, were ousted Thursday following fallout from a Signal group chat leak involving U.S. strike plans in Yemen.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been tapped to serve as acting national security adviser while holding his current role. Waltz, who took responsibility for adding a journalist to the group thread, will now be nominated as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Waltz was reportedly spared an earlier dismissal because Trump didn’t want to sack a high-profile figure before reaching his 100-day milestone in office, which he reached Tuesday.
