the Senate holds on ambassadorial nominees are harming our national interest.
Is there not also kind of an informal power that comes in the reverse if you do not have a confirmed nominee?
When the security situation in Haiti spiraled downward, we had no ambassador in place.
Thanks, Chairman Sanders, thanks to the panel.
if we mattered to you, you would have someone here, right?
When the Houthis started to fire at U.S. and other ships in the Red Sea, we did not have an ambassador in Djibouti.
When Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, we did not have an ambassador in Egypt.
We had no ambassador in country. That coup has led to a government that now wants to kick the U.S. out.