NY waiter puts Mike Waltz in tough spot as he asks how Iran war is helping people like him

WASHINGTON, D.C.: UN Ambassador Mike Waltz faced a tough question from a New York waiter as he sat down for a CNN town hall amid the US-Iran war. President Donald Trump and his administration have faced widespread scrutiny for waging war against Tehran.

During the Friday, March 20, town hall, moderator Dana Bash introduced Santiago Porras Ruiz, a college student and a waiter who is also active in local Democratic politics, to the attendees as well as Waltz.

NY waiter confronts Mike Waltz

Ruiz then went on to ask the diplomat, “Good evening. I’m a waiter at a local restaurant in Queens, a full-time college student who sleeps an average of four hours a night and is still thousands in debt. How is a war in a country half the world away funded by the taxes pulled from my check helping me in any way?”

Waltz immediately tagged the question as “tough” as he replied, “If we just look at the things the president has put in place in terms of housing and big corporations that are buying up whole neighborhoods, the tax cuts that he extended with the big, beautiful bill, the energy policies that we’re putting in place to not only make us self-sufficient, but to, you know, lessen these dependencies and lower prices, even lowering prescription drug prices.”

Mike Waltz says Trump has to 'make the tough decisions'

The 52-year-old politician also asserted that Trump is “absolutely focused on what you’re seeing day in and day out that’s affecting your pocketbook.” But then noted that the POTUS “has to weigh the risks and make the tough decisions, facing some hard truths.”

“We cannot have a world with a genocidal terroristic regime that holds not only your generation, but the next generation hostage with nuclear weapons. And, you know, those are the tough calls that the American people elected him to make,” Waltz added.

Trump says US will not guard Hormuz Strait

This came as earlier on Friday, Trump posted on his Truth Social that the US is “very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down our great Military efforts in the Middle East with respect to the Terrorist Regime of Iran.”

In the social media share, he also claimed that “the Hormuz Strait will have to be guarded and policed, as necessary, by other Nations who use it — The United States does not! If asked, we will help these Countries in their Hormuz efforts, but it shouldn’t be necessary once Iran’s threat is eradicated.”