Headline: Independent, 5/1/2025
President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy are leaving their posts, just weeks after the Signalgate scandal, according to reports.
Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, will be leaving their roles, CBS News first reported, in the first major shakeup of Trump’s White House.
It was “made clear” to Waltz earlier this week that his time leading the National Security Council had come to an end,” CNN reported. Questions have swirled about Waltz’s role after it was revealed that he added a journalist to a chat on the Signal app detailing military strikes. The chat involved high-ranking military and administration members and news of the breach became a blunder for the White House.
President Donald Trump publicly backed Waltz after the Signalgate scandal broke and said he was “a very good man.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also reiterated in a statement at the time that the president “has the utmost confidence in Mike Waltz and his entire national security team.”
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