Age, Biography, and Wiki
Mike Waltz, born on January 31, 1974, is a U.S. politician and former military officer. He is best known for his roles in the U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Berets) and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Waltz has been involved in various high-profile positions, including his recent appointment as National Security Advisor in 2025. You can find more detailed information about his biography on his Wikipedia page.
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| Date of Birth | 31 January 1974 |
| Age | 51 Years |
| Birth Place | Boynton Beach, Florida, U.S. |
| Horoscope | Aquarius |
| Country | U.S |
Height, Weight & Measurements
There is no publicly available information on Mike Waltz's specific height, weight, or other physical measurements.
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Dating & Relationship Status
Public details about Mike Waltz's personal relationships are limited. He is not often covered in media for his personal life, focusing more on his professional career.
On 26 March 2025 it was revealed by The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg that Waltz had inadvertently added him to a Signal group chat discussing the upcoming US strikes in Yemen targeting Houthi militia before they were publicly known. Signal is a commercial non-government messaging application. In the Signal chat, Waltz appears to initially add a setting that causes the chat messages to be deleted after one week, but later Waltz changes the setting to let the message deletions occur after four weeks. After the strikes occurred, Waltz provided a real-time update to the Signal chat, announcing that the strikes' "first target", which was the Houthi's "top missile guy – we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend's building and it's now collapsed".
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| Husband | Julia Nesheiwat (m. 2021) |
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Net Worth and Salary
As of 2025, Mike Waltz's net worth is estimated to be between $6 million and $10 million. This wealth comes from his diverse career, including military service, public office, and business ventures. Notably, he co-founded Metis Solutions, a defense contracting firm, and Askari Associates, an international strategic consulting firm. His salary as National Security Advisor is approximately $180,000 annually, a slight increase from his congressional salary of $174,000.
Career, Business, and Investments
- Military Service: Waltz served in the U.S. Army Special Forces, gaining experience that later influenced his political and business endeavors.
- Politics: He served as a U.S. Representative for Florida's 6th district from 2019 to 2025 before becoming the National Security Advisor in January 2025.
- Business Ventures: Waltz co-founded Metis Solutions, which was acquired for $92 million, and Askari Associates. His investments include real estate and financial assets like ETFs and cryptocurrencies.
From 2002 to 2011 and 2016 to 2023, Waltz served in Company B, 2nd Battalion, 20th Special Forces, MD-ARNG. From 2012 to 2015, he served in 5th Battalion, 19th Special Forces, TX-ARNG.
In 2010, Waltz helped found the analytics and training company Metis Solutions. It was bought in November 2020 by Pacific Architects and Engineers for $92 million.
Waltz has also pioneered legislation to secure American universities and academies from Chinese espionage, saying that although not all Chinese students in the United States are "spies or bad people", they "have no choice but to provide the Chinese government with whatever information that government demands". In 2020, he secured legislation that provides a universal requirement for all agencies for researchers to disclose all foreign funding sources in applications for federal funding. Failure would result in permanent termination of research and development awards to the professor or school, permanent debarment of malign professors, and criminal charges. Further, Waltz directed the Department of Defense to track foreign talent recruitment programs that pose a threat to the United States, particularly as a response to Chinese Communist Party efforts to infiltrate American universities.
Waltz also sponsored legislation to ensure the federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) does not invest in Chinese or Russian markets. Weeks later, President Trump directed the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board to reverse their decision to expand TSP investments.
Shortly after Waltz's 2021 op-ed, The Intercept reported on his role in founding and managing a defense contracting company called Metis Solutions, which had landed contracts worth an accumulated $930 million in Afghanistan from the US government, largely in the area of training Afghan security forces. As a result of PAE acquiring Metis in 2020, Waltz had personally realized capital gains in the range of $5-25 million, according to disclosure releases.
While initially backing Ukraine following the launch of the Russian invasion in February 2022, he indicated that his views have evolved to a less supportive position in 2024. In 2024, he suggested that Trump could threaten to damage the Russian economy by lowering the price of oil and gas, using it as a leverage. In an op-ed to The Economist, Waltz said giving military aid to Ukraine indefinitely is a "recipe for failure", but that the US can "provide more weapons to Ukraine with fewer restrictions" if Russian president Vladimir Putin refuses to engage in peace talks. He repeatedly criticized the Biden administration's strategy in Ukraine as unclear and confusing, and expressed support for a negotiated settlement of the conflict.
Social Network
Mike Waltz maintains a professional presence on social media platforms, often using them to share updates about his political and national security roles. However, specific details about his follower count or engagement rates are not readily available.
On May 1, 2025, it was reported that Waltz, along with Deputy National Security Advisor Alex Wong, would leave their posts following group chat leaks on the messaging platform Signal. Waltz served as NSA for 101 days, the second shortest tenure for a non-acting officeholder in the position (Mike Flynn, Trump's initial first term NSA, lasted 24 days). The same day, Trump announced via social media that he intended to nominate Waltz to serve as United States ambassador to the United Nations (replacing the withdrawn nomination of Elise Stefanik) and that Marco Rubio would take on an acting role as National Security Advisor.
On January 20, 2025, Waltz tendered his resignation from the U.S. House of Representatives in order to take up his appointment with the Trump administration. He would assume office the same day. Shortly after becoming National Security Advisor, Waltz would reverse his previous stance supporting a ban on TikTok in the United States.
After The Atlantic reported about the Signal chat, the incident sparked national security concerns as Pentagon regulations specifically prohibit the use of Signal and similar messaging apps for sharing classified information. Due to the automatic message deletion setting, there were also concerns on whether the conversations were kept on official record as mandated by the Presidential Records Act. Waltz responded to the reporting by saying that Goldberg "really is the bottom scum of journalists … I don't text him. He wasn't on my phone", but Goldberg "somehow gets on somebody's contact and then get sucked into this group"; Waltz also said of Goldberg: "I didn't see this loser in the group. It looked like someone else", raising the possibility that Goldberg "did it deliberately". Waltz told the media that "I take full responsibility. I built the group", then said: "We made a mistake. We're moving forward".
After the Signal leak, Der Spiegel searched the Internet using a commercial information provider, a commercial people search engine, and leaked databases, which revealed Waltz's personal mobile number, personal email address and its passwords, and Waltz's personal profiles for Microsoft Teams, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and Signal.
On 30 March 2025, The Wall Street Journal reported that according to American officials, Waltz had started and hosted multiple other Signal group chats containing Cabinet members to discuss sensitive issues related to national security, including on military operations and on ceasing hostilities between Ukraine and Russia. In April, The Washington Post reported that officials had stated that Waltz received government communications on his personal Gmail account, including his schedule and work documents, and that Waltz would then transfer data from his schedule to Signal. Both The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post quoted their sources as indicating that Trump did not want to fire Waltz because it would make a left-leaning media outlet (The Atlantic) look good, and that Waltz would have been fired if it was a right-leaning media outlet that exposed him.
In a 2017 interview with The National Interest, Waltz described his views on Afghanistan as primarily oriented around ideological objectives, rather than material objectives. He assessed that Afghanistan could be won through slow cultural conversion by unconventional forces, described as "multiple generations of winning hearts and minds", and anticipated 100 years before such objectives could be achieved, saying:"We are in a war of ideas and we are fighting an ideology. It is easy to bomb a tank, but incredibly difficult to bomb an idea. We need a long-term strategy that discredits the ideology of Islamic extremism... We are in a multi-decade war and we are only 15-years in."After telling an anecdote to the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference audience about his time serving in Afghanistan during the public announcement of the Obama-era troop withdrawals, Waltz said of the war in Afghanistan, "So, are we 15 years in? Yes. Are we in for a lot more fighting, and do we need a long-term strategy to undermine the ideology of Islamic extremism—just like we did fascism and just like we did communism? Yes, we do. Uh, and you know, I think we're in for a long haul, and I think our nation's leadership needs to begin telling the American people, 'I'm sorry, we don't have a choice; we're 15 years into what is going to be a multi-generational war because we're talking about defeating an idea.' It's easy to bomb a tank; very difficult to defeat an idea, and that's exactly what we have to do."
In 2014, his book Warrior Diplomat: A Green Beret's Battles from Washington to Afghanistan was published. In 2022, he wrote the book Dawn of the Brave, a colorful, animal-filled Christian children's book about service. In 2024, his book Hard Truths: Think and Lead Like a Green Beret was published.
Education
Waltz is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) and holds a Master's degree in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College. His educational background has been influential in shaping his career in military and national security affairs.
In summary, Mike Waltz is a prominent figure in U.S. politics and national security, with a career spanning military service, politics, and successful business ventures. His net worth reflects his diverse professional achievements.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in international studies from the Virginia Military Institute in 1996, graduating with honors as a Distinguished Military Graduate.
Waltz was commissioned as an armor officer in the U.S. Army in 1996. He later graduated from Ranger School and graduated the Special Forces Qualification Course in 2000, then serving two years as an active duty Special Forces officer with multiple tours in the Middle East and Africa. For his actions in combat, Waltz was decorated with four Bronze Stars, including two for valor.
In August 2021, during the final stages of the second US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Waltz called on President Biden to reverse course on the war in Afghanistan, urging for the redeployment of special forces on the ground and the use of aerial bombardment of Taliban positions by the Air Force. In an op-ed for Fox News, he predicted that a return to Afghanistan was inevitable, and viewed withdrawal as a temporary act that would "decimate" local allies and civilians, saying "thousands will die".
