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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.
President Trump is replacing his national security advisor, Mike Waltz.
He'll nominate him as the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
And Bears Asmahalad reports this is the first major staff shakeup of Trump's second term.
Waltz has been under pressure
since March when he inadvertently added a journalist to a text chain about U.S. military strikes in Yemen.
But Vice President J.D.
Vance told Fox News this change had nothing to do with that.
group chat incident.
The media wants to frame this as a firing.
Donald Trump has fired a lot of people.
He doesn't give them Senate-confirmed appointments afterwards.
Vance also insisted this move is not indicative of an ideological fight in the administration,
though Waltz is known as being more hawkish than many others in Trump's inner circle.
The president also announced that for the time being,