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Senate Confirms Herschel Walker as U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas After Rule Change

Republicans used a new simple-majority process to approve more than 100 nominees in a single vote.

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Former NFL running back and former Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Herschel Walker.
Former NFL football player Herschel Walker, U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to be ambassador to the Bahamas, testifies before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on nominations on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 11, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Herschel Walker attends a primary watch party at the Foundry restaurant in Athens, Ga., on May 23, 2022.

Overview

  • The Senate confirmed Walker, 63, in a 51–47 party-line vote as part of an en bloc package of Trump appointees.
  • The Bahamas will receive its first Senate-confirmed U.S. ambassador since 2011 after years of chargés d’affaires leading the embassy.
  • Walker told senators that countering China’s expanding footprint in the Bahamas makes a full-time envoy essential.
  • Bahamian ambassador Wendall Jones said Walker would be warmly received and well positioned to advance bilateral issues.
  • The vote occurred during a federal shutdown standoff and also installed Sergio Gor as U.S. ambassador to India.