Senate votes 96-4 to confirm Haley as UN representative

Published January 24, 2017 10:47pm ET



The Senate easily confirmed President Trump’s nominee to represent the United States at the United Nations on Tuesday, and gave his national security team its first diplomat.

Nikki Haley, South Carolina’s governor, succeeds Samantha Power as the U.S. representative. She passed in an easy 96-4 vote that was foreshadowed earlier Tuesday in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where just two Democrats voted against her.

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