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Trump Era Ambassadors Face Senate Test | US News
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee just approved two controversial Trump-era ambassador picks—Kari Lake for Jamaica and Doug Mastriano for Slovakia—in a stark 12-10 party-line vote. Republicans backed them, Democrats opposed, sparking debate over Lake’s past at the U.S. Agency for Global Media. The vote was unexpectedly influenced by Senator John Cornyn, who had threatened to block both nominees to pressure the White House into releasing frozen AIDS funds—a demand he later dropped after the administration agreed to act. Now, the full Senate will decide the fate of these high-profile…
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