Rep. Elise Stefanik of Schuylerville in Upstate New York has been selected by Donald Trump to be the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations under his administration.
In a statement, Trump said, ““I am honored to nominate Chairwoman Elise Stefanik to serve in my Cabinet as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Elise is an incredibly strong, tough, and smart America First fighter.”
During the impeachment hearings in 2019, Stefanik was a defender of Trump and he referred to her as a “Republican star.” Stefanik has been a steadfast election denier and objected when the House was in the process of certifying President Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election. She has consistently supported Trump’s lie about him winning the 2020 election and there being widespread fraud.
When Stefanik was first elected to Congress in 2014, she was the youngest woman lever elected to the House of Representatives. She worked closely with former House Speaker Paul Ryan.
Stefanik attracted national attention recently when she blasted university officials for not speaking out loudly enough and failing to take action against anti-Semitism on campus.
Stefanik is a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, the Committee on Education and Labor, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
She graduated from Harvard. From 2006 to 2009, she served on President George W. Bush’s Domestic Policy Council Staff and in the White House Chief of Staff’s office where she assisted in overseeing the policy development process on all economic and domestic policy issues.
Although at one time she was a critic of Trump as president, she shifted to become a leading Trump supporter saying that her shift was, in part, a reaction to Trump’s popularity with her constituents.
When she’s not in Washington, Stefanik lives in Schuylerville with her husband Matt and their son Sam.
Stefanik said, “I am truly honored to earn President Trump’s nomination to serve in his Cabinet as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. During my conversation with President Trump, I shared how deeply humbled I am to accept his nomination and that I look forward to earning the support of my colleagues in the United States Senate.
“The work ahead is immense as we see anti-Semitism skyrocketing coupled with four years of catastrophically weak U.S. leadership that significantly weakened our national security and diminished our standing in the eyes of both allies and adversaries”.
