Biden’s Pick For U.N. Ambassador Confirmed As Position Elevated To Cabinet-Level

On Tuesday, the Senate confirmed President Joe Biden’s nominee to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

As The Washington Post reports, “the upper chamber took an initial step, voting 78 to 20 to elevate Linda Thomas-Greenfield to ambassador status,” followed by “a second vote to make her ‘representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations'” by a vote of 78 to 21.