{"id":7736,"date":"2025-03-27T18:19:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/white-house-yanks-stefaniks-un-nomination\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T18:19:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:19:34","slug":"white-house-yanks-stefaniks-un-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/white-house-yanks-stefaniks-un-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"White House yanks Stefanik\u2019s UN nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The White House has pulled Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/227481\" data-person-id=\"227481\">Elise Stefanik<\/a>\u2019s nomination to be United Nations ambassador amid worries about the House\u2019s narrow GOP majority, three people with knowledge of the decision, granted anonymity to share details, told Blue Light News.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Republican was expected to be easily confirmed to the post, with more than enough votes to pass, but concern about Republicans\u2019 narrow majority stalled her confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>Stefanik had yet to resign her seat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has pulled Rep. Elise Stefanik\u2019s nomination to be United Nations ambassador amid worries about the House\u2019s narrow GOP majority, three people with knowledge of the decision, granted anonymity to share details, told Blue Light News. The New York Republican was expected to be easily confirmed to the post, with more than enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}