Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., met with 10 senators within the first two days of conferences whereas courting approval as President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Stefanik, the present Home GOP chair, communicated her file supporting Israel and combating antisemitism to Republican senators because the higher chamber should approve her appointment to Trump’s Cupboard.
Kicking off the road to confirmation, Stefanik met with Sens. Katie Britt, R-Ala., MarkWayne Mullin, R-Okla., Jim Banks, R-Ind., Tim Scott, R-S.C., Shelley Capito, R-W.Va., on Wednesday.
Then, on Thursday, Stefanik, the fourth-highest rating Home member, met with Sens. Steve Daines, R-Mt., Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Susan Collins, R-Maine, and John Barasso, R-Wyo.
Stefanik posted pictures of her assembly with every senator on X, saying their discussions centered round standing with Israel, combating antisemitism and supporting Trump’s “America First peace by way of power nationwide safety insurance policies.”
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McConnell, the outgoing Senate majority chief, stated in an announcement that “the world’s largest worldwide group is in dire want of a wake-up name, and Consultant Stefanik is uniquely well-suited to ship it.”
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., stated she labored carefully with Sen. John Barasso, R-Wyo., “once we have been the Home and Senate counterparts as convention chairs.” (Workplace of Rep. Elise Stefanik)
“In a discussion board corrupted by authoritarians the place cowardly majorities hector the embattled Jewish state of Israel, the following U.S. Ambassador should converse with uncompromising ethical readability,” McConnell stated. “I’m significantly inspired that the President-elect’s nominee shares my dedication to holding UNRWA accountable for its function within the horrors of October seventh and holding U.S. taxpayer {dollars} away from such vile complicity.”
“I look ahead to the Senate’s well timed consideration of Representative Stefanik’s nomination. I hope and anticipate she will probably be a proud proponent of an American overseas coverage primarily based on peace by way of power,” McConnell added.
The conferences got here on the similar time the Worldwide Legal Court docket (ICC) issued arrest warrants Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Protection Minister Yoav Gallant for “crimes towards humanity and warfare crimes,” together with using hunger as a way of warfare and concentrating on civilians. President Biden condemned the transfer as “outrageous,” and the Pentagon stated it “basically rejects” the choice by the ICC, which “doesn’t have jurisdiction over this matter.”
Rep. Elise Stefanik thanked outgoing Senate Majority Chief Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., “for the chance to take a seat down and focus on my ironclad dedication to standing with Israel and representing President @realDonaldTrump ’s America First peace by way of power nationwide safety on the U.N.” (Workplace of Rep. Elise Stefanik)
“Regardless of the ICC may suggest, there isn’t any equivalence – none – between Israel and Hamas,” Biden stated.
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Stefanik has been a staunch supporter of Israel because it continues its offensive towards Hamas terrorists in Gaza in response to the Oct. 7 assaults, in addition to different Iran-backed terrorist teams within the area.
Final month, Stefanik demanded a “full reassessment” of U.S. funding for the United Nations and known as to cease monetary backing for the United Nations Reduction and Works Company for Palestine Refugees within the Close to East (UNRWA).
Biden had suspended funding to UNRWA after the company fired a number of staffers in Gaza who Israeli authorities accused of collaborating within the Oct. 7 assaults.
Nonetheless, the congresswoman derided how the Biden-Harris administration “has despatched over $1 billion to UNRWA since 2021, filling the coffers of this terrorist entrance.”
“This should finish,” Stefanik stated in an announcement on Nov. 4. “Simply as President Trump did, and I’ve persistently advocated for, we should completely lower off funding to UNRWA which instills antisemitic hate in Palestinians, homes weapons for terrorists, and steals the help they’re speculated to be distributing.”
The US contributes 22% of the United Nations funds, and subsequently is the world physique’s largest single donor.
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By her place on the Home Schooling and the Workforce Committee, Stefanik additionally has fought towards surging antisemitism on American school campuses within the wake of Oct. 7 and held the presidents of Ivy League universities to account for failing to sentence requires the genocide of Jews by anti-Israel protesters.
