U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy Alex Wong are stepping down, marking the first significant change in the President’s inner circle since he took office in January, U.S. media reported on Thursday.
U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, will be leaving their posts, sources briefed on the matter said on Thursday, in the first big shakeup of Trump's inner circle since he took office in January.
A 51-year-old former Republican lawmaker from Florida, Waltz took criticism inside the White House when he was caught up in a March scandal involving a Signal chat among top Trump national security aides.
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