Illinois senator on Pete Hegseth, Mike Waltz, military spending and more

Mike Waltz ‘failing up’ and will have ‘brutal’ confirmation hearing, Duckworth says

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) confirmed Sunday she would not support Mike Waltz in a Senate vote determining whether he will be President Donald Trump’s next ambassador to the United Nations. Waltz served as Trump’s national security adviser until Thursday, when…

Duckworth says Mike Waltz will have a “brutal hearing” for U.N. ambassador

Washington — Sen. Tammy Duckworth said Sunday that she expects Mike Waltz to have a “brutal hearing” for U.N. ambassador after his surprise departure last week from his post as President Trump’s national security adviser. “He’s not qualified for the job, just by nature of the fact that he participated in this Signal chain,” Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat, said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”  Duckworth argued that everyone in the gr…

Illinois senator on Pete Hegseth, Mike Waltz, military spending and more

WASHINGTON (CBS, KYMA/KECY) - Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) spoke with Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation Sunday about Pete Hegseth and Mike Waltz. During her interview with Brennan, Senator Duckworth says Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, should be dismissed explaining, "He should never have been nominated in the first place. He is the most untrained, inadequate, Secretary of Defense in our nation's history. And look at what he's done at t…

Sen. Tammy Duckworth says Mike Waltz will have a "brutal hearing" for U.N. ambassador

Sen. Tammy Duckworth said Sunday that she expects Mike Waltz to have a "brutal hearing" for U.N. ambassador after his surprise departure as national security adviser.

JD Vance shot down by former Trump official over his Mike Waltz 'promotion' comments

A former official in Donald Trump's first administration who served as both national security adviser and ambassador to the United Nations shot down the spin from Vice President J.D. Vance that Mike Waltz was getting a "promotion" after being ousted from his advisory position.Appearing on MSNBC's "T...