The Senate has confirmed Kelly Craft to become the next U.S. envoy to the United Nations. Craft, a longtime GOP activist from Kentucky, is currently U.S. ambassador to Canada. Her confirmation ends a more than seven-month vacancy in the position.
The Senate has confirmed Kelly Craft to become the next U.S. envoy to the United Nations despite Democratic concerns about her inexperience and potential conflicts of interest.
In her confirmation hearing, Craft vowed to continue the efforts of Trump’s first ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley, to push for reform at the world body and to fight against anti-Israel resolutions and actions by the United Nations and its affiliated agencies. During Haley’s tenure, the administration withdrew from the U.N. Human Rights Council and the U.N. educational and scientific agency for adopting positions it deemed to be hostile to Israel.
A report issued by the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez, just before the vote called Craft “inexperienced,” “unknowledgeable” and “outmatched.” The report said Craft’s “lack of diplomatic or substantive policy experience” could threaten her ability to forcefully represent and defend U.S. national interests against other powerful nations.
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