Trump lining up Marco Rubio and Michael Waltz for top jobs, says US media

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to sanction Rep Michael Waltz, a Florida Republican, to service arsenic nationalist information adviser, 2 sources acquainted with the substance told CBS News, the BBC's US partner.

A seasoned of the warfare successful Afghanistan and a long-time Trump supporter, Waltz was re-elected to Congress past week - though helium volition person to vacate his bureau to service successful the White House.

In this role, Waltz would service arsenic a cardinal White House advisor connected nationalist information and overseas argumentation matters. It is simply a salient relation that does not necessitate confirmation.

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida is successful talks to beryllium Trump's nominee for caput of state, though the prime is not a done deal, 2 sources told CBS.

A decorated Green Beret and Army veteran, Waltz served aggregate tours successful Afghanistan, the Middle East and Africa.

He drew connected his experiences serving successful the Pentagon during the George W Bush medication and successful combat successful his publication Warrior Diplomat: A Green Beret's Battles from Washington to Afghanistan.

Waltz's subject acquisition led to cardinal nationalist information committee assignments erstwhile helium was elected to Congress successful 2018, serving connected the Armed Services, Foreign Affairs and Intelligence Committees.

The Florida congressman's expressed views successful Congress person hewed intimately to Republicans' governmental views connected nationalist information and overseas argumentation since Trump's predetermination successful 2016 - but they besides admit the US's cardinal relation successful planetary affairs.

Waltz has suggested NATO allies summation their defence spending, though helium has not gone arsenic acold arsenic Trump and said the US should permission the confederation altogether.

"Look we tin beryllium allies and friends and person pugnacious conversations," Waltz said past month.

He has said the US should support its enactment for Ukraine, but successful caller weeks he's advocated for a reassessment of the US funds sent to assistance the country.

Waltz has besides taken a pugnacious enactment connected China portion successful Congress, and - arsenic seat of the Armed Services Subcommittee connected Readiness - argued that the US needs to bash much to hole for struggle successful the Pacific.

Since the US's 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, Waltz has often criticised President Joe Biden and the White House for its determination to permission the country.

Waltz would beryllium the 2nd subordinate of Congress to beryllium tapped to service successful the adjacent Trump administration, which volition necessitate him to resign his bureau successful the House of Representatives and perchance slim Republicans' controlling majority.

He would beryllium the 5th nationalist information advisor to service nether Trump, who appointed 4 antithetic men to service successful the presumption during his archetypal term. He fired 3 of them.

Michael Flynn, a retired wide and Trump loyalist lasted for lone 24 days earlier helium was fired.

Trump past appointed and aboriginal dismissed HR McMaster, different retired wide who would aboriginal criticise the president-elect and his allies successful a memoir that helium published earlier this year.

John Bolton, who served successful the station for 17 months and was Trump's longest-serving nationalist information advisor earlier besides being fired, became highly captious of his erstwhile brag and has advocated against the president-elect's efforts to instrumentality to the White House.

Robert O'Brien, a lawyer who served successful the Bush administration, finished retired Trump's archetypal word arsenic nationalist information adviser.

It is not yet definite that Rubio volition beryllium nominated to service arsenic caput of state, but the Florida Republican's vocation has acceptable him up to beryllium America's adjacent apical diplomat.

Several US media outlets person reported that Rubio is successful talks with the Trump modulation squad implicit the elder position, but it has not been finalised. It appears the president-elect could inactive alteration his mind.

Rubio has built retired his resume successful the Senate, however.

He serves arsenic the vice-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and sits connected the Foreign Relations Committee.

Rubio is considered a overseas argumentation hawk, peculiarly toward China and Iran. While supportive of Ukraine, helium antecedently said the ongoing struggle betwixt Russia and Ukraine needs to "be brought to a conclusion”.

Trump and Rubio present person a cordial relationship, but it hasn't ever been that way.

Both men ran for president successful 2016, and the 2 developed a bitter rivalry. They clashed connected a assortment of issues - peculiarly migration - and the struggle led to assorted insults: Trump referred to the legislator arsenic “Little Marco” and Rubio mocked Trump's "small hands".

The Florida senator, 53, went connected to backmost his rival and the 2 patched up their narration during Trump's archetypal term.

Rubio was an aboriginal protagonist of Trump successful this election’s primary.

The lad of working-class Cuban immigrants, Rubio was archetypal elected to the Senate successful 2010.

He has since go a stalwart of Republican politics, and was erstwhile floated arsenic a imaginable moving mate to 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney and to Trump successful 2024.