President Donald Trump on Saturday announced that he was nominating State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce to serve as deputy representative to the United Nations.
“I am pleased to announce that I am nominating Tammy Bruce, a Great Patriot, Television Personality, and Bestselling Author, as our next Deputy Representative of the United States to the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador,” Trump wrote in a post to Truth Social, adding that Bruce has been “serving with distinction” in her current role as State Department spokesperson and “will represent our Country brilliantly at the United Nations.”
Bruce has been one of the State Department’s most public figures in the first six months of Trump’s second term, helming regular press briefings on the administration’s foreign policy.
Her nomination comes at a time when the United States does not have a permanent leader at the United Nations; Mike Waltz — who briefly served as Trump’s national security adviser — had his confirmation hearing to be the U.N. ambassador last month, but the full Senate has yet to vote on his nomination.
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