Published : 15 Sep 2026, 02:55 PM
Updated : 16 Sep 2026, 11:50 AM
US President Donald Trump on Monday nominated Texas Republican Representative Wesley Hunt to be ambassador to Saudi Arabia, which would fill a position vacant since Trump began his second term in January 2025.
Hunt, a US Army veteran once deployed to Iraq and Saudi Arabia, is not running for re-election to the House, after making an unsuccessful bid for the US Senate.
If his nomination is approved by the US Senate, Hunt would go to Riyadh at a time when months of war on Iran have raised fears of wider conflict and Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis have launched attacks on Saudi Arabia.
