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On Thursday, the White House announced that it was moving away from the appointment of Elise Stefanik to be the United States representative to the United Nations, a plum concert that was a launch pad for people like George HW Bush and Madeleine Albright. By drawing the name, the Trump administration acknowledged that the thin majority of Republicans in the House would be in danger if it was moving away.
The choice of Stefanik, a millennium without frills and pragmatic, to represent the United States at the United Nations has been largely considered to be the most responsible choice of Trump in an otherwise chaotic cabinet. Given the choice between a solid representative on the world scene and a voting yes guaranteed to the House, Trump used in the short term, but managed to achieve his already lobed diplomatic portfolio.
“There are others who can do a good job at the United Nations,” wrote the president on his social platform, Truth Social.
Earlier this year, Stefanik came out of his role as a member of the Républicaine management of the Chamber to prepare for her new job in New York, where she was ready to serve Turns like the Washington application of Maga’s vision for the world and as a punching bag of this world.
Instead, it is dismissed on the argument that its headquarters in New York State is too precious to be put into play. It was an unexpected development for many in the congress, including some Democrats, who are looking forward to seeing how one of theirs could sail on the delicate field of world diplomacy while balancing the realities of Trumpism and responsible policy.
The republicans of the room have a fragile majority, which will be tested next week with special elections in Florida which should be red safely, but that some feared that a Trump reaction is stronger than most. The Republicans around Washington are concerned about the pair of voting bulletins that are headed for school gymnasiums, the church recreation rooms and the basements of the library on Tuesday. With a thin majority like a razor – and tons of outdoor silver flower in Florida – the republicans of a house have no margin of error. And yielding New York’s seat held by Stefanik would only add to fragility, even in another district that Trump easily worn just a few months ago.
Stefanik had exactly the right CV for the work she just lost. Before joining the Congress, she worked at the White House of George W. Bush and was a political councilor of Mitt Romney, the future president Paul Ryan. It is a pro educated at Harvard who was considered a future heavy striker in the GOP. She put the armor to be Trump’s defender for two dismissals, even if she realized that it was a risky decision. She rolled the dice and learned why the house almost always wins.
It was only a few months that Trump asked Stefanik to give up his hard -won headquarters and she accepted. She acceded to her Senate confirmation audience. She courted good diplomats in courtesy calls. She went around with appropriate players in reflection groups on foreign policy while wink at a wink that she always had an eye on the strategic base lines of the Cold War. She even obtained applause of democrats who, otherwise, consider the Trump 2.0 team as a parade of amateurism worthy of contempt.
However, he collapsed when Trump realized that he prefers to preserve a majority of coins in the house that some people hoped to be an ambassador of the Slam-Dunk on the world stage. This is why the president of the Mike Johnson room, half joking, said in November that Trump “understands and perfectly appreciates mathematics” to preserve the majority and told him to stop making a descent in the cookie pot.
During Trump’s first joint address at the Congress during his second term, rather than joining the cabinet on the Primo stadium, Stefanik sat with a home subscription. She was relegated to cheap seats because her vote was necessary to keep Johnson married to the hammer. The bet was that she would get the bump on the UN once things have been installed in Florida, where voters have choices next week to find out who could replace Mike Waltz, who obtained the promotion to lead the White House situation as a national security advisor to Trump, and Matt Gaetz, whose alleged interest in young women and the drugs.
Instead, Stefanik finds himself on the bench. The White House says that she would join the leadership of the house, but it is not as if the slots there had an opening. There is a rich history of parties creating new jobs when exceptional talents are ready to face them, but Stefanik has already abandoned a legitimately powerful position to assume this uninviable task of representing Trump on the world scene. Now she is back to work she had to leave because the Republicans have 218 seats in the House, the Democrats have 213 seats and four are open.
Some surely appreciate some Schadenfreude at the expense of Stefanik. Eight years ago, she directed the figures and decided that the alignment with Trump would serve it better than to join old bosses like Karl Rove. She defended Trump’s worst impulses, raised a silver cargo for the republican sycophants of the house and made her star of Maga’s star. “I look forward to the day Elise is able to join my administration in the future,” wrote Trump. In the meantime, she is the last victim of a president who burns her political capital faster than expected.
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