In what may be the first clear confirmation Trump’s plan to realign the global trader system is working, moments ago Bloomberg reported that the European Union is identifying concessions it’s willing to make to Donald Trump’s administration to secure the partial removal of the US tariffs that have already started hitting the bloc’s exports and that are set to increase after April 2.  

According to Bloomberg, EU officials were told at meetings this week in Washington that there was no way to avoid new auto and so-called reciprocal tariffs that Trump is launching next week. Discussions also began on what the contours of a potential deal to reduce them should eventually look like.

That prompted the European Commission (which handles trade matters for the EU) to start working on a “term sheet” for a potential concession agreement, which would set out areas for negotiations on the punitive trade measures, including lowering its own duties, mutual investments with the US as well as easing certain regulations and standards.

In short, Europe – led these days by France’s Macron – did what Europe always does when led by the French: it surrendered.

The reciprocal tariffs which will be unveiled on April 2 are meant to strike out against what Trump considers to be unfair levies on US goods as well as non-tariff barriers, such as domestic regulations and how countries collect taxes, including the bloc’s value-added tax, digital taxes and regulations. The EU says its VAT is a fair, non-discriminatory tax that applies equally to domestic and imported goods (for more on the framework for Trump’s reciprocal tariffs, see this).

The news, which is actually rather bad for Europe as it confirms the continent will be unable to retaliate fully and instead will be on the receiving end of Trump’s trade war, sparked a brief rally in the Euro…

… however we expect this to promptly reverse once algos realize that Europe’s ad hoc capitulation means that the US now has the unconditional upper hand.

Israel has conducted airstrikes on the Lebanese capital of Beirut for the first time since the ceasefire with Hezbollah took effect back in November.

Friday’s attack began with a threat and a warning, with the Israeli army telling people to evacuate parts of the southern Beirut suburb of Hadath. Middle East correspondents report a “heavy bombardment” of Beirut, as clearly the ceasefire is effectively dead.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun confirmed the Israeli attack, calling it a “continuation of Israel’s violation of the agreement sponsored by France and the United States.”

Aoun said “the international community must put an end to these attacks and force Israel to abide by the agreement, just as Lebanon is committed to it.”

All schools and universities in the suburb of Hadath have been ordered closed for the day by the Lebanese government, as residents fled in cars and by foot after the Israeli warning.

Scenes of panic ensued after the Israeli army’s Arabic spokesman said earlier, “To everyone present in the building marked in red as shown on the map and the buildings adjacent to it: You are present near facilities belonging to Hezbollah,” on X, 

Israel just leveled an entire residential building in sth #Lebanon during Ramadan pic.twitter.com/NmPomFq9oP

— HK (@HKX417) March 28, 2025

“For your safety and the safety of your families, you are obliged to evacuate these buildings immediately and stay away from them at a distance of no less than 300 meters, as shown on the map,” the warning notice added.

Israel has claimed Hezbollah has been launching attacks again into northern Israel, and is framing this new aggression on Beirut as retaliation.

Casualties are already being reported in southern Lebanon as well. The Beirut strikes “came as Israel launched a wave of attacks in southern Lebanon on Friday, including a deadly strike on Kfar Tebnit in Nabatieh.” Middle East Eye continues, “The attack killed one person and wounded eight others, including three children, Lebanon’s health ministry said.”

⚡️🇮🇱🇱🇧BREAKING:

Israel just bombed Lebanon, Israeli forces conducted 3 raids on a building in Al-Hadath, in the southern suburb of Beirut. pic.twitter.com/KKEi82uFIm

— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws) March 28, 2025

Israel has also said Friday its forces intercepted an inbound rocket from Lebanon, which Hezbollah forces denied firing.

Hezbollah is meanwhile not expected to mount much of a significant defense. As regional war correspondent Elijah Magnier explains, “Hezbollah’s deterrent posture have weakened, allowing Israel to act with increasing freedom along the northern front. Israel is preparing to strike specific targets in Beirut, particularly in the Hadath area.”

“In the coming weeks, it is expected that Israel escalate further—possibly initiating a limited war on Lebanon,” Magnier continued. “The move is tied to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s interest in maintaining a state of war to avoid domestic scrutiny and preserve his grip on power.”

Via Middle East Eye

Israel’s Knesset has passed a bill enabling greater political control over the appointment of judges, effectively diminishing the Supreme Court’s power.

The measure, which will come into effect after the October 2026 general elections, marks the first time in Israel’s history that the selection process for judges will be controlled by politicians.

It will change the composition of the nine-member committee that selects judges, comprising judges, lawmakers, and bar association representatives, overseen by the justice minister.

The bill will see representatives of the Israeli Bar Association replaced with lawyers appointed by the ruling coalition and the opposition, and give politicians veto power over lower court appointments. It will also remove any influence of the three judges who sit on the committee overseeing appointments to the Supreme Court.

The committee is currently handling petitions against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s dismissal of Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, and the reappointment of Itamar Ben Gvir as national security minister.

The bill was passed almost unanimously after the opposition boycotted the vote, with 67-1 in favor of the legislation.

Justice Minister Yariv Levin will bar the committee from naming new judges until the law comes into effect, leaving the country with only 11 supreme court justices – short of the full complement of 15.

Knesset opposition leaders condemned the legislation, saying that its sole aim is “to ensure judges are subjected to the will of politicians”.

“This is happening while 59 hostages are still held in Gaza. Instead of focusing all efforts on bringing them home and healing the divisions in the nation, this government is once again engaging in the very legislation that divided the public before October 7,” they added.

A ‘dangerous direction’

A flurry of petitions against the bill were filed by opposition parties and a government watchdog to the High Court of Justice shortly after its approval. In one of them, opposition leader Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid Party stated that the law’s approval “is not an amendment, but the eradication of an entire system“.

National Unity party chairman, and former member of the war cabinet, Benny Gantz, warned lawmakers ahead of the vote that the nation was headed in a “dangerous direction”.

Meanwhile, thousands of Israelis gathered outside the Knesset to protest the legislation.Before October 2023, the Netanyahu government pushed a package of bills seeking to overhaul the judicial system, sparking mass protests across the country.

On January 1, 2024, the Supreme Court nullified controversial legislation passed by the government in July 2023 that eliminated the court’s ability to overturn government decisions.

The legislation eliminated the Supreme Court’s reasonableness clause, a power given to the court to overturn government rulings deemed unreasonable.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political party, Likud, called the court’s decision unfortunate and said it opposed “the will of the people for unity, especially during wartime”. Netanyahu is currently on trial for corruption. Since being indicted in 2019, he has railed publicly against the justice system, calling it biased against him.

Reports surfaced earlier that a submarine carrying Russian tourists sank off Egypt’s Red Sea coast, killing at least four people. The New York Times cited a statement from the Russian Embassy and Egyptian local media outlets. 

Here are more details about the undersea incident that occurred in the waters 300 miles or so southeast of Cairo, near one of Egypt’s top tourist hubs along the Red Sea:

The vessel was believed to be carrying about 45 people on a tour in the waters off the coast near Hurghada, a popular resort nearly 300 miles southeast of Cairo.

The embassy reported the deaths in a statement posted on social media, which also said that all the tourists on board were Russian.

Local news outlets reported at least six dead, but the numbers could not immediately be verified. Nine people were injured and were taken to a nearby hospital, and rescue workers pulled 29 people out of the water, the news reports said. -NYT

Inside the same Sinbad tourist submarine that sunk off the coast of Egypt in the Red Sea on Thursday morning.

44 Russians were on board. Six are reportedly de*d.

This video is from a previous voyage. It gives you a sense of the experience when things don’t go terribly wrong. pic.twitter.com/euIJbDPetq

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) March 27, 2025

Reports of the commercial sub sinking in the Red Sea come nearly two years after the Titan submersible, operated by OceanGate Expeditions, imploded 12,500 feet below the surface, killing five.

🚨#BREAKING: New haunting footage has been released by the U.S. Coast Guard, showing the tail cone of the Titan submersible after the fatal implosion that killed five people in June 2023. Their last messages from the doomed vessel were, ‘All good here… Dropped two [weights] pic.twitter.com/4Bbe6LmMrk

— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) September 18, 2024

This latest incident is yet another blow to the deep-sea tourism industry. 

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

This is a weird one.

A resurfaced CIA document that was declassified in 2000 claims that the Ark of the Covenant was located by a remote viewer in 1988 and that US intelligence knows the current location of the biblical artefact.

The Ark, said to hold the Ten Commandments is described in the bible as a chest of wood and gold which also contains a pot of manna, as well as Aaron’s staff.

CIA confirmed Ark of the Covenant’s existence using remote viewing, resurfaced declassified docs claim https://t.co/AjLP8himZC pic.twitter.com/OHRdhfK2jd

— New York Post (@nypost) March 27, 2025

It was made by the Israelites shortly after they fled Egypt around the 13th century BC, with the Ten Commandments being placed inside the Ark by Moses himself.

Historians believe the Ark was kept inside the Holy of Holies, the innermost chamber of the ancient Temple of Jerusalem, but that it was taken during the Babylonian sack of Jerusalem in 586 BC and subsequently lost.

So, of course, the CIA tried to find it using remote viewing, where a subject is said to enters a deep mind state and is able to visualise and locate distant objects, events or other people.

A declassified document reveals the CIA found the Ark of the Covenant in 1988 using remote viewing/astral projection.

It was guarded by “spirits” using a “power unknown to us … ”

They discovered “historical knowledge far beyond what we now know.”

Allegedly.

🧵THREAD pic.twitter.com/ldOxqaNTg4

— Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) March 26, 2025

The CIA document, originating from ‘Project Sun Streak’, says that one such individual, ‘Remote Viewer No. 032’ was given coordinates to locate an unknown target, and they described the Ark of the Covenant somewhere in Middle East.

PROJECT SUN STREAK

This was the CIA’s attempt to locate the Ark of the Covenant using remote viewers in 1988. (88)

The viewer they used claimed to have found it. It’s was being guarded underground by entities in the Middle East.

You can read the full document PDF download here… pic.twitter.com/1C5r53pT65

— Redpill Drifter (@RedpillDrifter) March 26, 2025

“The target is a container. This container has another container inside of it,” the document states, adding “The target is fashioned of wood, gold and silver…. and it is decorated with [a six-winged angel].”

The CIA allegedly ran a “remote viewer” program where “psychics” were locating objects.

Apparently, the Ark of the Covenant was located by such a psychic, known as “remote viewer #032” …

Well, I’m sold! The stick figures by remote viewer #032 did it for me. Proof! pic.twitter.com/yXcN2hdpxa

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) March 26, 2025

The document further claims that the remote viewer said the Ark is “protected by entities” who will “destroy” those who attempt to break into it.

It “can only be opened (now) by those who are authorized to do so — this container will not/cannot be opened until the time is deemed correct,” the document further states.

The remote viewer added that the “mechanics of the lock system will be found to be fairly simple,” and that anyone who attempts to open the container by force will be ‘destroyed by through the use of a power unknown to us.”

When this story started doing the rounds again, the memes came thick and fast.

Great. Just great. pic.twitter.com/5srM8abeju

— Fight With Memes (@fightwithmemes) March 26, 2025

Guys, no.
We all know how that one ends. https://t.co/mflbNJEtrC pic.twitter.com/xBKuUl3bHT

— Michael F Kane (@MichaelFKane) March 26, 2025

People also pointed out that President Trump has a replica of the Ark from the Indiana Jones movie.

I have more questions than answers right now https://t.co/SAwIJOkbFj

— D.Sauce (TIE) (@DakotaSidwell) March 26, 2025

“Replica” pic.twitter.com/vdxEgchKEn

— Alpha Liger (@AlphaLiger) March 26, 2025

“We’ve got an ark, it’s a beautiful ark, it’s like Moses’ ark but bigger. I think ours may be bigger, and more powerful. We didn’t think it was possible, but they took it and made it more powerful. God even said to me, he said ‘wow, what an ark’. ”

— jay (@jayservedio) March 26, 2025

https://t.co/8pYCzwHUxV pic.twitter.com/eA584kKkaj

— Ingenuous Firebrand 🐆🇺🇸 (@ING2Firebrand) March 26, 2025

So, assuming Trump’s isn’t the actual one, where is it?

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A ‘coalition of the willing’ is mulling a European army which would be deployed to Ukraine in a ‘peacekeeping’ capacity, except that French President Emmanuel Macron has also admitted these Western forces would be ready to join the conflict if provoked.

Macron is currently hosting the leaders of nearly 30 countries plus NATO and European Union chiefs at a Paris summit – where as we described earlier they are pushing back on US-backed peace plans by ruling out sanctions relief for Russia.

Most importantly, Macron said Wednesday that a proposed European armed force to enforce a future Ukraine peace deal could “respond” to a Russian attack if Moscow launched one.

“If there was again a generalized aggression against Ukrainian soil, these armies would be under attack and then it’s our usual framework of engagement,” Macron said.

“Our soldiers, when they are engaged and deployed, are there to react and respond to the decisions of the commander in chief and, if they are in a conflict situation, to respond to it,” the French leader explained.

Of course, this is precisely why the Kremlin has rejected any plan which calls for NATO country forces to be present in Ukraine. President Putin sent his army into Ukraine in February 2022 as in large part a reaction to constant NATO expansion to Russia’s doorstep.

France and the United Kingdom are leading the way in putting together what they’ve dubbed a “reassurance force” for Ukraine.

The forces would have the “character of deterrence against any potential Russian aggression,” Macron said further – which comes dangerously close to simply saying he wants to send NATO troops into the conflict to fight Moscow forces.

More billions have also been committed: “Macron committed to a further 2 billion euros ($2.16bn) in French military support on Wednesday, including missiles, warplanes and air defense equipment. Zelenskyy said other partners could announce aid packages on Thursday,” international outlets have reported.

Meanwhile, Moon of Alabama has highlighted the latest flip-flopping from NATO’s top leadership on the question of peace, and eventual restoration of positive relations with Russia:

NATO Chief Says Russia Relations Should Be Restored Post War – Bloomberg, Mar 14 2025

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said relations with Russia should eventually be normalized once the fighting ends in Ukraine, while stressing the need to keep pressure on Moscow to ensure progress in ceasefire negotiations.

“It’s normal if the war would have stopped for Europe somehow, step by step, and also for the US, step by step, to restore normal relations with Russia,” Rutte said in an interview on Bloomberg TV Friday.

Just twelve days later …

‘This is not the time to go it alone,’ NATO’s Rutte tells U.S. and Europe – Reuters, Mar 26, 2025

While welcoming Trump’s push for peace in Ukraine, Rutte said there would be no normalisation of relations with Russia once the war had ended.

“This will take decades because there is a total lack of confidence. The threat is still there,” he told reporters.

Given all of this, the prospect of peace doesn’t actually seem close, despite the continued optimistic statements coming from the White House. President Trump has aimed to achieve peace within the some first one hundred days of his presidency, but that’s looking increasingly unrealistic at this point. 

Authored by Paul Weston via X:

A few harsh realities to consider: 

1) The hard-left has infiltrated all Western institutions and actively seeks to undermine and subvert all Western nations – regardless of which particular puppet politician is in power. 

2) Most countries within Western Europe will see their native young become a minority well before 2050. 

3) Western countries currently operate on the principle that foreign people and foreign cultures are intrinsically good, whilst European culture and people are irredeemably evil. 

4) This sets up the neo-Marxist agenda of the oppressed and the oppressor which copies the early 20th century revolutionary ideology of Marxist-Leninism where the working class was designated as the oppressed, and the bourgeoisie the oppressor. 

5) The result of this was the murder of 100 million people deemed the “oppressor” in Communist Russia and Communist China. 

6) Islam is currently designated the “oppressed” by all Western institutions, regardless of the fact that Islam is a supremacist ideology with a 1,400-year history of imperial expansion and warfare. Europeans are designated the “oppressor” even as they yield to every edict of “diversity” ladled upon them. 

7) Islam will politically control much of Western Europe before 2050 as a result of rapidly declining native demographics, coupled with rapidly expanding Islamic demographics and single-minded bloc voting for Islamic political parties. 

8) Few politicians or journalists (none in England…) will talk about this, let alone state what should be done to halt the overthrow of Western Europe. People who do talk about it are liable to be arrested for Hate Crime and imprisoned. 

9) This represents an existential crisis which threatens our very survival as a people, a culture, and an entire continent. We are a dwindling demographic deemed the oppressor by our own Traitor Class, even as a growing demographic with a supremacist belief system is forced upon us by the Traitor Class – which maintains our potential future masters are the oppressed. The history of Lenin, Stalin and Mao with regard to the oppressed and the oppressor does not bode well for the European people. 

10) We have little time left, but most people cling to the naïve belief that we can somehow vote our way out of this terrible situation. I don’t entirely discount this possibility, but I do believe that should the AfD in Germany or Marine Le Pen in France threaten to win an election in a landslide, they would never be allowed to take power. The EU criminals in the Commission – and they really are criminals – have already intimated they will ban “far-right” parties capable of winning elections – and recently did just that in Romania.

All in all then, not good, as Jerry Seinfeld might say. I’m sorry if people find this depressing, but I do think it is a matter of crucial importance that our situation be properly understood. After all, if we don’t realise how bad things are, we will be unable to plan any possible salvation.

It looks like Ferrari is ready to try and stick it to President Trump and his newly imposed auto tariffs…

The automaker put out a press release late Wednesday/early Thursday that said it would “update its commercial policy, based on the preliminary information currently available regarding the introduction of import tariffs on EU cars into the USA”. 

“While reaffirming its commitment to maximum client attention and protection and with the goal to provide certainty to them: The commercial terms will remain unchanged for orders of all models imported before April 2, 2025 and for orders of the following three families – Ferrari 296, SF90 and Roma – regardless the import date,” it said.

“For the current remaining models, the new import conditions will be partially reflected on pricing, up to a maximum 10 per cent increase, in coordination with our dealer network,” the release said. 

Ferrari announced it will hold prices steady on vehicles imported before April 2. After that, pricing for the 296, SF90, and Roma models will remain unchanged, but its more in-demand models — including the Purosangue SUV, 12Cilindiri, and limited-edition F80 — will see hikes of up to 10%. That means an extra $43,000 on the $430,000 Purosangue and over $350,000 added to the $3.5 million F80, CNBC added. 

As we wrote this morning worries over tariffs hit markets on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 halting a three-day win streak to close down 1.1%. 

“Tariffs are front and center on people’s minds,” said Arun Sai, senior multi-asset strategist at Pictet Asset Management. “We all know that tariffs are stagflationary and markets have been trying to price that to different extents. What we don’t know yet is what’s the ultimate lasting impact.”

“If the European Union works with Canada in order to do economic harm to the USA, large-scale Tariffs, far larger than currently planned, will be placed on them both in order to protect the best friend that each of those two countries has ever had!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Trump wrote late Wednesday/early Thursday morning.

On Wednesday, Trump signed an order imposing a 25% tariff on all auto imports—a move he believes could reverse decades of disastrous industrial policy that have hollowed out the core of the country. The order takes effect next week, in addition to the ‘reciprocal tariffs’ set for April 2. 

Bloomberg reported earlier that the EU is preparing countermeasures. France has asked the European Commission to consider using the anti-coercion instrument to strike back against Trump’s escalating trade war. 

In the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump told reporters that reciprocal levies would be lower than expected: “We’re going to make it all countries, and we’re going to make it very lenient. I think people are going to be very surprised. It’ll be, in many cases, less than the tariff that they’ve been charging us for decades.”

For an in-depth look at how tariffs could effect the industry and markets across the global, premium subscribers can read this note that we published earlier this morning. 

Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack,

A compromise is possible whereby the Europeans are pressured by the US into stockpiling their Ukrainian-destined arms in Poland and Romania for swift shipment across the border if hostilities re-erupt sometime after a ceasefire, armistice, or peace treaty is agreed to.

The official Kremlin readout from Putin’s most recent phone call with Trump shared Putin’s demand that “a complete cessation of providing Kiev with foreign military aid and intelligence must become the key condition for preventing an escalation of the conflict and making progress towards its resolution.” Trump’s temporary suspension of such assistance proves that he has the political will to shut it off for good if he gets what he wants from negotiations with Putin, but the Europeans are a different story.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Trump during a Cabinet meeting on Monday before the end of the 12-hour-long Russian-US talks in Riyadh that day that “You’ve [promoted despite] despite impediments from other countries”, which was arguably an allusion to the Europeans’ warmongering. Although deliberately vague, he might very well have been referring to the EU’s and UK’s plans to continue arming Ukraine in spite of Putin’s demand that this cease as one of his most important conditions for peace.

Poland, Romania, and the Black Sea in descending order serve as the entry points for foreign weapons into Ukraine, none of which the US has full control over. It jointly operates the Rzeszow logistics hub in southeastern Poland through which an estimated 90-95% of all weapons to Ukraine pass but this facility can continue functioning even if the US pulls out. The situation is similar with Romania’s newly built “Moldova Highway” for facilitating the shipment of arms from Greek ports to Ukraine.

The US military only jointly operates local port facilities in Alexandroupolis while having no direct influence over the “Moldova Highway”, both of which can also continue functioning without it. As for the Black Sea, the new grain deal that the US is negotiating with Russia could either lead to international checks on cargo for detecting arms trafficking or create a plausible cover for this trade. In any case, just like the preceding two, the point is that others besides the US can rely on this route too.

Trump is unlikely to threaten economic sanctions against nominal NATO allies whose countries continue to arm Ukraine even if his own decides to cut it off for good as part of the series of pragmatic compromises that it’s negotiating with Russia for sustainably ending the conflict. The only scenario in which he might rally Congress to pass another arms package is if Russia significantly expands its ground campaign beyond the regions that it claims as its own as was discussed here.

As long as that doesn’t happen, then the US’ Biden-era aid will soon run out and Ukraine will then be entirely dependent on European aid, but it’s unclear whether that drastic curtailment in aid (also keeping in mind their already greatly depleted stockpiles) would suffice for Russia to cease hostilities. Putin might agree to it as part of the series of pragmatic compromises that he’s negotiating with Trump, or he could still lean on his counterpart to exert more pressure on the Europeans to follow in his footsteps.

Trump’s hands would be tied in the second scenario as was just explained, but he could also lead from the front by suggesting that the Europeans instead stockpile the equipment that they want to send to Ukraine in Poland and Romania per their “security guarantee” commitments to Kiev. These refer to the bilateral pacts clinched last year whereby major countries like the UK, France, Poland, Italy, and the US itself basically agreed to resume their existing level of support for Ukraine if hostilities re-erupt.

Whatever weapons the Europeans might still send to Ukraine wouldn’t compensate for the cut-off of US aid so they’d be transferring their equipment to be destroyed for no purpose other than delaying the inevitable political resolution of the conflict, by which time Russia could even gain more ground. Putin might of course prefer for NATO not to stockpile anything in proximity to Ukraine’s borders for swift shipment across if there’s a continuation war, but Russia can’t control what they do on their territory.

Trump and his team would therefore do well to convey these points to the Europeans in order to facilitate the Ukrainian peace process. Putin might not agree to a ceasefire or armistice so long as the Europeans continue arming Ukraine, which would be futile on their part in any case, while they’d just be wasting their weapons that could otherwise be put to better use if hostilities re-erupt and the US thus restores its prior level of support for Ukraine. This proposed compromise might lead to a breakthrough.

Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

President Donald Trump has withdrawn the nomination of Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Trump announced the move on Truth Social on March 27, citing the narrow majority the GOP has in the House.

“As we advance our America First Agenda, it is essential that we maintain EVERY Republican Seat in Congress. We must be unified to accomplish our Mission, and Elise Stefanik has been a vital part of our efforts from the very beginning,” he wrote.

“I have asked Elise, as one of my biggest Allies, to remain in Congress to help me deliver Historic Tax Cuts, GREAT Jobs, Record Economic Growth, a Secure Border, Energy Dominance, Peace Through Strength, and much more, so we can MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.

“With a very tight Majority, I don’t want to take a chance on anyone else running for Elise’s seat.”

Trump said Stefanik will join his administration “in the future.”

The GOP has a narrow majority in the House as it looks to pass Trump’s legislative agenda.

The Epoch Times has reached out to Stefanik’s office for comment.

Stefanik served as the House GOP conference chairwoman. She stepped down from the role due to Trump nominating her to be ambassador to the U.N. She was succeeded by Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.). Trump said Stefanik will rejoin House GOP leadership. It is unclear which role she would be in.

The Epoch Times has reached out to McClain for comment.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Stefanik will be invited to rejoin House GOP leadership. What the role will be is unclear.

“It is well known Republicans have a razor-thin House majority, and Elise’s agreement to withdraw her nomination will allow us to keep one of the toughest, most resolute members of our Conference in place to help drive forward President Trump’s America First policies,” he wrote in a post on social media platform X.

“There is no doubt she would have served with distinction as our ambassador to the United Nations, but we are grateful for her willingness to sacrifice that position and remain in Congress to help us save the country. I will invite her to return to the leadership table immediately.”

During her nomination hearing, Stefanik denounced what she said is the “anti-Semitic rot” at the U.N., given its stance toward Israel.

“The U.S. is the largest contributor to the U.N. by far,” she said. “Our tax dollars should not be complicit in propping up entities that are counter to American interests, anti-Semitic, or engaging in fraud, corruption, or terrorism.”

The committee advanced her nomination to the Senate floor by voice vote on Jan. 30.

Stefanik has been one of Trump’s staunchest allies in Congress. She was the first member of Congress to endorse his 2024 campaign.

She was first elected to represent New York’s 21st Congressional District in 2014. At that time, she was the youngest woman elected to Congress in U.S. history.