Trump appoints staunch loyalists to key posts | US elections 2024

Donald Trump is making progress in forming his future administration, with the president-elect appointing loyalists to key positions and demanding that they can assume their duties while avoiding a laborious Senate confirmation process.

The 78-year-old Republican chose Elise Stefanik, a 40-year-old New York state representative, for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Elise is an America First fighter, incredibly strong, tenacious and intelligentjustified the one who is preparing to return to the White House in January.

Elected to Congress in 2014 at just 30 years old, Elise Stefanik initially posed as a moderate voice. Her constituency anchored in the Republican camp, she gradually asserted herself as pro-Donald Trump.

She made national headlines for her brash defense of the president during his first impeachment proceedings in 2019, then refused to certify the presidential election won in 2020 by Joe Biden.

More recently, in December 2023, she was the protagonist of a sequence that went viral on social networks, where we see her questioning in an extremely tense manner Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard University, about pro-Palestinian slogans heard on the campus. Ms. Gay then resigned.

Elise Stefanik, an ardent supporter of Israel, recently accusedHIM of languish in anti-Semitism.

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, congratulated Stefanik on Monday. At a time when hatred and lies fill the halls of the UN, your resolute moral clarity is needed more than everhe wrote.

In American political life, the post of United States Ambassador to the United Nations often serves as a springboard to higher positions, as evidenced by the careers of Madeleine Albright, who was then Secretary of State under Bill Clinton, Susan Rice, appointed National Security Advisor under Barack Obama, or even George Bush Sr., who became president.

Donald Trump appointed Nikki Haley to this post in 2017, but he ruled out recalling her on Saturday, she who ran against him in the Republican primaries at the start of the year.

For immigration, a hard-liner

The Republican also announced Sunday evening that he would entrust the burning issue of immigration control at the borders to Tom Homan, a hard-liner.

Former director of the agency responsible for border control and immigration (ICE), Mr. Homan will be responsible for implementing the president-elect’s promise to carry out the largest expulsion operation of illegal migrants in the country. history of the United States.

Furthermore, Donald Trump has demonstrated his desire to bypass the laborious confirmation processes, by senators, of the people he plans to appoint to key positions, despite the fact that the Republicans have regained control of the Senate.

To do this, he plans to use a clause that allows the president to make temporary appointments when the Senate is not in session.

Any Republican senator interested in the coveted position of majority leader in the United States Senate must agree with [cette clause]without which we will not be able to have people confirmed on time.

Furthermore, Donald Trump announced his decision to appoint Lee Zeldin, one of his close friends, a former representative of the State of New York, to head the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

It will ensure rapid and fair deregulation decisions are made that will boost the strength of American businesses, while maintaining the highest environmental standards.justified the future president.

M. Zeldin s’est dit honoré to join Mr. Trump’s cabinet.

We will restore America’s energy leadership, revitalize our auto industry to bring back jobs to Americans, and make the United States the world leader in artificial intelligence. This while preserving access to clean water and airhe wrote on his X account.

Under the mandate of Democrat Joe Biden, the EPA announced new, much stricter standards to limit CO emissions₂ cars and coal-fired power plants.

Mr. Trump is finally expected to appoint Stephen Miller as deputy director of his cabinet, one of his close advisers since the days of his first successful campaign for the White House.

Mr. Miller is known for advocating extremely strong measures against illegal immigration.

The president-elect made his first major appointment on Thursday by choosing a woman, Susie Wiles, to lead his cabinet.

Ms. Wiles was the architect of the Republican’s successful election campaign, which won all seven key states, 312 voters to Kamala Harris’s 226, and appears on course to have a majority of the popular vote.

The Republicans are also favored to win, with a narrow lead, the House of Representatives, but in certain constituencies, notably in California, the count has still not been completed.