Stefanik meets with senators as Trump's UN ambassador nominee, touts 'American First peace through strength'

Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., met with 10 senators successful the archetypal 2 days of meetings portion courting support arsenic President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. 

Stefanik, the existent House GOP chair, communicated her grounds supporting Israel and combating antisemitism to Republican senators arsenic the precocious enclosure indispensable o.k. her assignment to Trump's Cabinet. 

Kicking disconnected the road to confirmation, 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., connected Wednesday.

Then, connected Thursday, Stefanik, the fourth-highest ranking House 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 photos of her gathering with each legislator connected X, saying their discussions centered astir lasting with Israel, combating antisemitism and supporting Trump's "America First bid done spot nationalist information policies." 

ICC REJECTS ISRAELI APPEALS, ISSUES ARREST WARRANTS FOR BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, YOAV GALLANT

McConnell, the outgoing Senate bulk leader, said successful a connection that "the world’s largest planetary enactment is successful dire request of a wake-up call, and Representative Stefanik is uniquely well-suited to present it." 

Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., said she worked intimately with Sen. John Barasso, R-Wyo., "when we were the House and Senate counterparts arsenic league chairs."  (Office of Rep. Elise Stefanik)

"In a forum corrupted by authoritarians wherever cowardly majorities hector the embattled Jewish authorities of Israel, the adjacent U.S. Ambassador indispensable talk with uncompromising motivation clarity," McConnell said. "I americium peculiarly encouraged that the President-elect’s nominee shares my committedness to holding UNRWA accountable for its relation successful the horrors of October 7th and keeping U.S. payer dollars wide of specified vile complicity." 

"I look guardant to the Senate’s timely information of Representative Stefanik’s nomination. I anticipation and expect she volition beryllium a arrogant proponent of an American overseas argumentation based connected bid done strength," McConnell added. 

The meetings came astatine the aforesaid clip the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued apprehension warrants Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and erstwhile Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for "crimes against humanity and warfare crimes," including the usage of starvation arsenic a method of warfare and targeting civilians. President Biden condemned the determination arsenic "outrageous," and the Pentagon said it "fundamentally rejects" the determination by the ICC, which "does not person jurisdiction implicit this matter." 

Rep. Elise Stefanik thanked outgoing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., "for the accidental to beryllium down and sermon my ironclad committedness to lasting with Israel and representing President @realDonaldTrump ’s America First bid done spot nationalist information astatine the U.N." (Office of Rep. Elise Stefanik)

"Whatever the ICC mightiness imply, determination is nary equivalence – nary – betwixt Israel and Hamas," Biden said. 

TRUMP TAPS FORMER ACTING AG MATTHEW WHITAKER AS NATO AMBASSADOR

Stefanik has been a staunch protagonist of Israel arsenic it continues its violative against Hamas terrorists successful Gaza successful effect to the Oct. 7 attacks, arsenic good arsenic different Iran-backed violent groups successful the region. 

Last month, Stefanik demanded a "complete reassessment" of U.S. backing for the United Nations and called to halt fiscal backing for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees successful the Near East (UNRWA). 

Biden had suspended backing to UNRWA aft the bureau fired respective staffers successful Gaza who Israeli authorities accused of participating successful the Oct. 7 attacks. 

However, the congresswoman derided however the Biden-Harris medication "has sent implicit $1 cardinal to UNRWA since 2021, filling the coffers of this violent front." 

"This indispensable end," Stefanik said successful a connection connected Nov. 4. "Just arsenic President Trump did, and I person consistently advocated for, we indispensable permanently chopped disconnected backing to UNRWA which instills antisemitic hatred successful Palestinians, houses weapons for terrorists, and steals the assistance they are expected to beryllium distributing."

The United States contributes 22% of the United Nations budget, and truthful is the satellite body's largest azygous donor. 

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

Through her presumption connected the House Education and the Workforce Committee, Stefanik besides has fought against surging antisemitism connected American assemblage campuses successful the aftermath of Oct. 7 and held the presidents of Ivy League universities to relationship for failing to condemn calls for the genocide of Jews by anti-Israel protesters.