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Ortagus departing deputy Mideast envoy post to become senior adviser at US Mission to the UN
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
US Deputy Special Envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus arrives for a meeting with with Lebanon's parliament speaker in Beirut on April 5, 2025. (AFP)
Morgan Ortagus is departing her post as US deputy envoy to the Mideast to become a senior policy adviser at the US Mission to the United Nations, a US official confirms to The Times of Israel.
As deputy Mideast envoy, Ortagus had been the Trump administration’s point person on Lebanon, traveling there several times this year.
Ortagus’s move is the latest extension of a shakeup in the Trump administration’s national security team that began with Mike Waltz being removed from his position as national security adviser. Waltz was subsequently nominated to become the US ambassador to the UN, so Ortagus will work under him.
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