He’s not qualified for the job, just by nature of the fact that he participated in this Signal chain,” the Illinois Democrat told Margaret Brennan on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.” Every person in the Signal chat should be fired for not speaking up, Duckworth said Sunday, calling Hegseth the “most untrained, inadequate secretary of defense in our nation’s history.” But almost immediately after reports revealed that Waltz was stepping down as national security adviser, Trump announced plans to nominate him as ambassador to the United Nations. “Now we’re going to put somebody who’s completely incompetent over at the U.N., who’s going to have to be conducting these negotiations, talking with our allies, trying to get them on board with us while we oppose our adversaries,” Duckworth said.
Author: Sanjana Karanth
Published at: 2025-05-04 22:20:01
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