Stefanik Will Face Questions About Wars And Nukes At Confirmation Hearing To Be Un Ambassador

Rep. Elise Stefanik is likely to face questions at her confirmation hearing on Tuesday to become the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations about her lack of foreign policy experience, her strong support for Israel and her views on funding the U.N. and its many agencies.

Harvard-educated and the fourth-ranking member of the U.S. House, she was elected to Congress in 2015 as a moderate Republican and is leaving a decade later as one of President Donald Trump's most ardent allies. She embraced Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol as he denied he lost the election to Joe Biden.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres "looks forward to working again with President Trump on his second term," U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said Monday.

When Trump announced her appointment, his former national security adviser, John Bolton, told The Associated Press that he sees Stefanik as the new version of Trump's U.N. ambassador in his first administration - Nikki Haley . Haley went on to challenge him, unsuccessfully, for the GOP nomination last year.

Stefanik "wants to run for president in 2028," said Bolton, who also served as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. in the Bush administration. "She realizes she has no foreign policy experience, so what better way than to become U.N. ambassador. She stays two years, and then away we go."