President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Rep. Elise Stefanik to function his ambassador to the United Nations.
“Elise is an incredibly strong, tough, and smart America First fighter,” Trump stated in a press release Monday asserting his choose.
Nikki Haley, who challenged Trump for the GOP nomination, was amongst those that beforehand held the position in his first time period.
Stefanik, 40, who serves as Home Republican Convention Chair, has lengthy been certainly one of Trump’s most loyal allies within the Home, and was amongst these mentioned as a possible vice presidential alternative.
Born and raised in upstate New York, Stefanik graduated from Harvard and labored in former President George W. Bush’s White Home on the home coverage council and within the chief of employees’s workplace.
In 2014, at 30, she grew to become the youngest girl ever elected to Congress, representing upstate New York. She later grew to become the youngest girl to serve in Home management.
Stefanik was identified early in her tenure as a extra average conservative voice. However she quickly connected herself to the previous president, quietly remaking her picture into that of a staunch MAGA ally — and seeing her energy ascend.
She grew to become the Home Republican Convention Chair in 2021.
Stefanik spent years positioning herself as certainly one of Trump’s most trusted allies and confidants on the Hill. She endorsed him within the 2024 race earlier than he had even launched his bid, and aggressively campaigned on his behalf throughout the GOP major.
She noticed her profile rise after her aggressive questioning of a trio of college presidents over anti-Semitism on campus led to 2 of their resignations — a efficiency Trump repeatedly praised.
She additionally defended him vigorously in each of his impeachment trials and railed towards his 4 prison indictments, together with submitting an ethics criticism in New York towards the choose who heard his civil fraud case.
