{"id":2503935,"date":"2025-10-28T14:48:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-gop-to-sink-trump-ambassador-pick-for-kuwait\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:49:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:49:18","slug":"senate-gop-to-sink-trump-ambassador-pick-for-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-gop-to-sink-trump-ambassador-pick-for-kuwait\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate GOP to sink Trump ambassador pick for Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-gop-to-sink-trump-ambassador-pick-for-kuwait%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2503935&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Donald Trump&#8217;s nominee for U.S. ambassador to Kuwait, amer Ghalib, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/radical-tries-using-alinskys-rules-on-utah-school-board-but-bible-backing-parents-get-the-upper-hand\/\" title=\"Radical attempts Alinsky&#039;s tactics on Utah School Board, but Bible-supporting parents prevail.\">facing strong opposition<\/a> in the Senate, primarily from Republican senators, due to allegations of antisemitism and past sympathetic remarks toward terrorist groups. Ghalib, the former Muslim-American mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, encountered bipartisan criticism during his Senate Foreign relations Committee confirmation hearing. Several GOP senators, including Dave McCormick, John Curtis, John Cornyn, and Ted Cruz, oppose his nomination, citing concerns over his past statements, such as calling Saddam Hussein a martyr and justifying Hamas&#8217; 2023 attack on Israel.Additionally, Ghalib was scrutinized for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald ...\">social media post<\/a> in which he apparently liked a comparison of Jewish people to monkeys. Despite his endorsement of Trump in the 2024 election, which helped the president secure crucial support in Michigan&#8217;s muslim community, Ghalib&#8217;s nomination is unlikely to proceed due to the significant opposition within the Republican caucus.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Senate GOP to sink Trump ambassador pick for Kuwait over antisemitism<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2377942\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President Donald Trump&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3162987\/muslim-mayor-michigan-endorses-trump\/\">nominee for Kuwait ambassador<\/a>&nbsp;lacks the support to be confirmed over what Republicans say is a history of antisemitism and sympathy toward U.S.-designated terrorist groups.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/ghalibamer-stateofkuwait-may2025\">Amer Ghalib<\/a>, the former first Muslim-American&nbsp;mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, faced bipartisan backlash last week during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Enough GOP senators oppose his nomination to sink it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3866415\/john-thune-sours-rifle-shot-bills-republicans-eye-shutdown-endgame\/\">Thune sours on &lsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thune-sours-on-rifle-shot-bills-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Thune sours on \u2018rifle shot\u2019 bills - ...\">rifle shot&#038;rsquo<\/a>; bills as Republicans eye shutdown endgame<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3865877\/bernie-sanders-rediscovers-borders-immigration-will-democrats\/\">Bernie Sanders rediscovers borders. Will Democrats?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3865685\/senate-democrats-gop-tariff-fight-supreme-court-legality\/\">Senate Democrats reignite GOP tariff fight as Supreme Court weighs legality<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s going to be hard to overcome in terms of even &hellip; getting that nomination to the floor,&rdquo; Senate Majority Whip <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-barrasso\/\">John Barrasso<\/a> (R-WY), a member of Foreign Relations, told the <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not respond to the <em>Washington Examiner&rsquo;s<\/em> request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/dave-mccormick\/\">Dave McCormick<\/a> (R-PA) became the latest Foreign Relations panel member on Tuesday to come out against Ghalib, joining Sens. John Curtis (R-UT), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Ted Cruz (R-TX).<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He doesn&rsquo;t support the president&rsquo;s policies on Israel,&rdquo; McCormick, a Gulf War veteran, told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. &ldquo;He called <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/saddam-hussein\/\">Saddam Hussein<\/a> a martyr and was very complimentary. I think he just showed himself not to be qualified.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), another committee member, said he was still considering Ghalib&rsquo;s nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-thune\/\">John Thune<\/a> (R-SD) said he was &ldquo;vaguely familiar&rdquo; with Ghalib&rsquo;s controversies but had not yet &ldquo;examined&rdquo; them closely.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Amer Ghalib appears before a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing on his pending nomination to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the U.S. to Kuwait, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ghalib&rsquo;s endorsement of Trump in the 2024 election helped the then<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >-candidate siphon crucial support<\/a> from Michigan&rsquo;s Muslim community away from former Vice President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\">Kamala Harris<\/a>, aiding in Trump&rsquo;s victory in the battleground state.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3162987\/muslim-mayor-michigan-endorses-trump\/\">MUSLIM MAYOR IN MICHIGAN ENDORSES TRUMP AFTER PRIVATE MEETING<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/yemen\/\">Yemeni<\/a>-American has come under fire for a series of eyebrow-raising positions, including that Hamas was justified in its 2023 attack on Israel and that Iraqi leader&nbsp;Saddam Hussein&nbsp;was a &ldquo;martyr.&rdquo; Ghalib also faced scrutiny for a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/social-media\/\">social media<\/a> post comparing Jewish people to monkeys that he apparently &ldquo;liked.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>During his confirmation hearing, Ghalib downplayed his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-here-are-the-10-worst-colleges-for-free-speech\/\" title=\"Report: Here Are The 10 Worst Colleges For Free Speech\">social media activity<\/a> and said his comment about Hussein&nbsp;was made in a &ldquo;moment of anger&rdquo; following Iranian attacks in 2020 on U.S. bases in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iraq\/\">Iraq<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate GOP to block Trump&#8217;s Kuwait ambassador pick over antisemitism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3204,"featured_media":2503936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25296639985477.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[6203,3740,3634],"class_list":["post-2503935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-gop","tag-senate","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25296639985477.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503935"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2503939,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503935\/revisions\/2503939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2503936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2503935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2503935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}