Florida Republican Rep. Mike Walz has been offered the role of national security adviser in the incoming Trump administration, sources confirm to Fox News Digital.
Walz has been one of President-elect Trump's most high-profile surrogates in the 2024 campaign, spearheading military efforts and supporting the Veterans for Trump coalition.
The Florida congressman is the first retired Green Beret to serve in Congress and has served in the administration as a policy advisor to former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
of wall street journal We first reported that Waltz had been offered the role. Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House for comment.
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Representative Mike Walz has been offered the position of national security adviser, according to officials.
But elevating House members to the administration could complicate Republicans' ability to control Congress.
Mr. Walz sits in a safe red seat on Florida's eastern coast, making it highly unlikely that he will fall into Democratic hands. But changing House members could take weeks.
With Republicans on track to gain a narrow House majority, reducing the number of Republicans in Congress could further accelerate the delays in President Trump's own first 100-day agenda.
House Minority Leader Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) predicted on Fox & Friends last week that Republicans would win by about four to six seats.
Walz is the second House member selected for the administration role after House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., accepted President Trump's nomination to be ambassador to the United Nations earlier Monday. becomes.
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Congresswoman Elise Stefanik has been offered the role of ambassador to the United Nations. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)
Stefanik and Walz are both members of the House Armed Services Committee and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
“I am truly honored to be nominated by President Trump's Cabinet to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. In my conversations with President Trump, I have expressed how incredibly humbled I am to receive his nomination and to receive his support. “My colleagues in the United States Senate,'' Stefanik said in a statement accepting the nomination.
“The surge in anti-Semitism, coupled with four years of catastrophically weak U.S. leadership that has severely weakened our national security and diminished our country's standing in the eyes of both our allies and adversaries, will lead to The effort is immense. I am ready to advance the restoration of President Donald J. Trump.'' On Day 1 of the United Nations, we will put America first in peace through strong leadership on the world stage. ”
Like Walz, Stefanik's upstate New York district is a safe Republican stronghold.
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Former President Donald Trump has already made a Cabinet decision. (Photo by Seth Wenig Poole, via USA TODAY)
The NSA role does not require Senate confirmation, but the UN ambassador role does.
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Officials previously told Fox News Digital that Walz is vying for the secretary of defense position.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Trump transition team for comment on Walz being offered the NSA role.
