Stefanik meets with 10 senators to court docket approval as Trump’s UN ambassador

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 street to affirmation, 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 photographs 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 energy nationwide safety insurance policies.” 

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McConnell, the outgoing Senate majority chief, stated in a press release 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 had 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 subsequent U.S. Ambassador should converse with uncompromising ethical readability,” McConnell stated. “I’m notably inspired that the President-elect’s nominee shares my dedication to holding UNRWA accountable for its function within the horrors of October seventh and preserving U.S. taxpayer {dollars} away from such vile complicity.” 

“I sit up for the Senate’s well timed consideration of Consultant Stefanik’s nomination. I hope and anticipate she will probably be a proud proponent of an American international coverage primarily based on peace by way of energy,” McConnell added. 

The conferences got here on the similar time the Worldwide Felony Court docket (ICC) issued arrest warrants Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Protection Minister Yoav Gallant for “crimes in opposition to humanity and battle crimes,” together with the usage of hunger as a technique 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 sit down down and focus on my ironclad dedication to standing with Israel and representing President @realDonaldTrump ’s America First peace by way of energy nationwide safety on the U.N.” (Workplace of Rep. Elise Stefanik)

“Regardless of the ICC may indicate, there is no such thing as a 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 in opposition to 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 referred to 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. 

Nevertheless, 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 a press release 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 alleged to be distributing.”

The USA contributes 22% of the United Nations finances, and due to this fact is the world physique’s largest single donor. 

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By way of her place on the Home Schooling and the Workforce Committee, Stefanik additionally has fought in opposition to surging antisemitism on American faculty 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.