Trump said he would nominate New York Rep. Elise Stefanik as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations

President-elect Donald Trump has offered New York Rep. Elise Stefanik the job as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and she has accepted the offer, they told the New York Post on Sunday evening.

“It is an honor to nominate Chairwoman Elise Stefanik to serve in my Cabinet as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Elise is an incredibly strong, tough and smart America First fighter,” Trump said in a statement to the newspaper.

Stefanik confirmed in a statement to the newspaper that she had accepted the role.

“I am truly honored that President Trump has been nominated for the position in his Cabinet as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations,” Stefanik said. “During my conversation with President Trump, I expressed how excited I am to accept his nomination and that I look forward to winning the support of my colleagues in the U.S. Senate.”

The position requires Senate confirmation.

Stefanik, a vocal and staunch Trump ally and the No. 4 Republican in the House of Representatives Chairman of the House Republican Conferencewould take over a role that Nikki Haley held during the first Trump administration.

The former South Carolina governor sought the GOP presidential nomination in the just-ended election season and endorsed Trump after dropping out of the race. Haley said she was “on standby” to appear on his behalf on the campaign trail, but that didn’t happen.

Stefanik spoke at the controversial Trump rally at Madison Square Garden in late October.

Stefanik was one of the toughest questioners of the three college presidents testified before the House Education and Workforce Committee last December about how they handled anti-Semitic incidents on their campuses following the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on October 7th.

Many Republican lawmakers insisted they were not doing enough to stamp out and denounce anti-Jewish sentiment.

Claudine Gay of Harvard University, Liz Magill of the University of Pennsylvania and Sally Kornbluth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology appeared before the panel. The presidents said they despise anti-Semitic language but also value free expression.

Ultimately, Gay and Magill resigned.