Although Trump decided not to fire his national security adviser over the Signal group chat, Waltz’s position is tenuous, officials say.

National Security Advisor Mike Waltz is on increasingly thin ice in President Donald Trump's administration, according to new reports. In a recent article by journalists Josh Dawsey, Meridith McGraw and Alexander Ward,

National security adviser, Mike Waltz, inadvertently added Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic magazine, to a group text using the Signal encrypted messaging service where top officials were discussing plans to attack the Houthis.

President Donald Trump voiced renewed support for his national security adviser Mike Waltz on Tuesday, adding that Waltz does not need to “apologize” for his role in accidentally adding the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group chat with Cabinet officials planning airstrikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen.

The White House has declared the controversy around a Signal chat for a military strike that inadvertently included a journalist to be “closed,” but the episode has left some in President Trump’s

The team of President Donald Trump's national security adviser, Mike Waltz, set up at least 20 group chats on the commercial Signal app to coordinate official work on issues involving China, Gaza, Middle East policy,