Posted on 03/27/2025 11:46:54 AM PDT by bitt
Edited on 03/28/2025 12:22:15 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch said he got the notice Thursday afternoon.
President Trump on Thursday pulled the nomination of GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, saving House Republicans from losing another member and cutting further into their already narrow majority.
The chamber makeup is now 218 Republicans and 213 Democrats.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch, whose panel holds nominee confirmation hearings for the post, said he got a call from the White House about the matter Thursday afternoon.
House Republicans have already lost two members to Trump nominations, after winning control of the lower chamber in November.
Florida GOP Rep. Michael Waltz left to become national security adviser and fellow Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz resigned for the U.S. attorney general post, before withdrawing his nomination.
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Several R Reps were pulled for admin positions.
We need a strong House majority!!
So many other sources to pull from.
So now I do finally have a Rep. in the House.
Good!
I thought from the beginning Trump should have steered clear of any house reps….
Many of us thought that. We needed the power in the House.
I wondered about this when they kept nominating one Republican House member after another for various posts in the administration when the Republican majority in the House was already razor thin.
Depends on their district. No problem with the 2 vacant FLA seats.
Smart move. My hometown district. This could have flipped Dem like it did in 2009. The district had elected an R rep for 100 years, and then representative John McHugh-R took a cabinet post in the Obama administration. The special election ended up with a Democrat winning, because the local Republicans chose RINO Dede Scozzafava as a candidate. (Dede is a friend of mine from high school, by the way.)
smart move
I didn’t even realize she wasn’t confirmed. This may have been up in the air for a while. Although it is odd that she was able to carry on duties as a normal ambassador without a hearing even scheduled.
Wow. Hadn’t heard this.
She never left Congress. She’s been there voting. Senate has stalled her nomination to keep her there ti vote for Trumps policies while they waited for other denial elections which are in jeopardy.
Elise Stefanik is highly valuable as a leader and must be treasured.
“un” is NOTHING and doesn’t deserve her presence.
Ditto.
That’s what we thought about that PA State Senate seat that just flipped dem. Traditional Republican safe seat, Trump +13 last November. The dems ran against Elon Musk and DOGE’s threats to just about everything. It obviously worked. Those two Florida seats that will be filled next week loom awfully large right now. I wonder what the internal polling is showing.
They are showing a tight race and we could lose which is why her nomination was pulled. They Dems will lie, cheat and steal to take over the House and impeach Trump.
There was no way that Princess Kathy was going to allow a special election.
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