Senate confirms Kelly Craft as U.S. ambassador to UN

The United States hasn’t had an official ambassador to the United Nations in more than seven months. The Senate confirmed Kelly Craft’s appointment to the position in a 56-34 vote Wednesday. President Donald Trump nominated Craft to replace Nikki Haley after State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert withdrew from consideration.

What else has Craft done? The GOP activist from Kentucky has been U.S. ambassador to Canada since 2017 and helped facilitate the United States–Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade. She was a member of the U.S. delegation to the UN General Assembly under President George W. Bush. Craft and her husband, billionaire coal-mining executive Joe Craft, donated more than $2 million to Trump’s 2016 campaign, according to The New York Times.

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