Former U.S. State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce was confirmed by the Senate on Monday for her new role as deputy ambassador to the United Nations.
She was sworn in shortly thereafter, completing the U.S. mission’s senior leadership team at Turtle Bay.
“Ambassador Bruce is a fierce advocate for American interests and a principled voice for the values that define our nation,” said Mike Waltz, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. “Her arrival marks a pivotal moment for our mission. With our full leadership team now in place, we are ready to take bold action to ensure the United Nations returns to its founding mission while remaining accountable to the American taxpayers.”
A foreign-policy and diplomatic novice, Bruce held the spokesperson’s role for a relatively short period of time, joining the State Department in January and stepping aside in August when U.S. President Donald Trump nominated her for the position in New York.
The author and former talk-show host told JNS in May that while she isn’t Jewish, despite rumors to the contrary, she went to a jeweler at the World Trade Center after the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, to purchase a Star of David to wear on the air.
“The jeweler knows me, and he said, ‘People will think you’re Jewish.’ I said, ‘I hope so,’” Bruce told JNS.
Fiercely pro-Israel, she listed a number of prominent Jewish thinkers and activists among her mentors.
