WATCH: Kaine and Stefanik spar over border security | Trump confirmation hearings
January 21, 2025
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as posted by the channelSen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Elise Stefanik, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to the U.N., sparred over border security funding Tuesday in her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
During his questioning, Kaine raised some of Stefanik's previous tweets about the border. He asked Stefanik, a Republican member of Congress representing New York, whether she believed any Democratic senators were in favor of “open borders and mass amnesty.”
Stefanik replied, “I think there are Democrat senators who have supported open borders.” The two continued to spar over Congressional funding for border security bills.
Stefanik, a loyal Trump ally, is chair of the House Republican Conference, and was the youngest woman ever elected to Congress when she won her seat in 2014. While she has little foreign policy experience, Stefanik has been vocal about Israel and its war with Hamas. She has called for a “complete reassessment” of the U.S.’s funding for the UN.
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