A particular election to find out his successor will happen on April 1.
Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.) will resign from Congress on Jan. 20, 2025, additionally Inauguration Day, to develop into President-elect Donald Trump’s nationwide safety advisor, a supply acquainted informed The Epoch Occasions.
Waltz has represented Florida’s sixth Congressional District since January 2019, succeeding Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. A particular election to find out his successor within the Home will happen on April 1, together with the particular election to fill former Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-Fla.) seat.
In Congress, he sits on the Home Intelligence Choose Committee, Home International Affairs Committee, and Home Armed Companies Committee. He’s additionally a member of the Home China Job Power.
Waltz will probably be tasked with coping with wars in Ukraine and the Center East. He has known as for an finish to the previous and, in relation to the latter, he has supported Israel’s proper to defend itself.
“Mike has been a powerful champion of my America First International Coverage agenda, and will probably be an amazing champion of our pursuit of Peace by means of Power!” mentioned Trump in a Nov. 12 assertion asserting Waltz as his nationwide safety advisor.
Waltz was a counterterrorism advisor to former Vice President Dick Cheney and was protection coverage director beneath former Protection Secretaries Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Gates.
That is creating and will probably be up to date.