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Senate Confirms Herschel Walker as U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas in Party-Line Vote

A party-line rules change enabled en bloc approvals that ended a 15-year vacancy.

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.
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Overview

  • The Senate approved Walker and more than 100 other Trump nominees in a single 51-47 vote after Republicans adopted a procedure for en bloc confirmations.
  • The ambassadorship to the Bahamas had been vacant since 2011, with the embassy run by chargés d’affaires.
  • Walker, 63, is a longtime Trump ally and former Georgia Senate candidate who lost to Democrat Raphael Warnock in 2022.
  • At his confirmation hearing, Walker pointed to U.S. concerns about expanding Chinese investments in Bahamian ports, tourism facilities and a hospital loan.
  • Bahamian Ambassador Wendall Jones welcomed the appointment, while Democrats denounced the process as Republicans pushed the confirmations during a shutdown standoff.