Starting today, the Trump administration will deny visas to same-sex domestic partners of diplomats and U.N. officials
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Senior global reporter at @Devex. Priors: @foreignpolicy & @washingtonpost. Signal: 917-439-4531; follow me @columlynch.bsky.social
United Nations & Brooklyn
Joined November 2008
- As an obscure Kansas Congressman, Pompeo made name for himself attacking State's response to murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens and 3 other Americans in Benghazi. Now, Pompeo's State Department is trying to cut funds to a charity in Stevens honor.
- John Bolton has advocated US retreat from UN and other international agencies. Now, he is concerned that China is gaining too much influence at the UN. bit.ly/2UbSlUl
- Exclusive: Top career State Department officials step down in what staffers are calling "Black Friday." atfp.co/2wPlurm
- Nikki Haley on UNSC vote:“The United States will not be told by any country where we can put our embassy. What we have witnessed here is an insult. It won’t be forgotten. It is one more example of the UN doing more harm than good in addressing the Israeli Palestinian conflict."
- But critics of U.S. decision to deny visas to domestic partners of same sex diplomats say it fails to protect couples from countries that criminalize same sex marriage:
- Exclusive: Trump Administration to bar Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif from entering the US, where he was scheduled to address UN Security Council meeting on upholding the UN Charter later this week, by me and @RobbieGramer
- Trump's 32-year-old senior policy adviser, Stephen Miller, led push to withdraw from UN migration talks. Backed by Kelly, Sessions, and ultimately Tillerson. Haley opposed. atfp.co/2BvkW9r
- Exclusive: The State Department's Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan, speaking in closed door town hall at Foggy Bottom, acknowledges failure to protect careers officials from political retaliation, by me and @RobbieGramer tinyurl.com/yxm8gf7y
- I'm old enough to remember when Mike Pompeo was considered a better Secretary of State than Rex Tillerson tinyurl.com/yyhyhcab
- Sorry, Mr. President, They Were Laughing At You. We conducted a survey of 21 U.N. diplomats, and only one thought the UN GA crowd was laughing with Trump. Me and @RobbieGramer bit.ly/2N6psjW
- Scoop: An internal USAID memo concludes Israel in violation of White House directive on Gaza aid. Final decision will be made by Secretary of State Antony Blinken
- Stephen Miller led the charge, followed by Kelly, Sessions and ultimately Tillerson. Nikki Haley was the lone proponent of remaining in talksThe White House pulls out of talks on the fate of world's migrant community. foreignpolicy.com/2017/12/02/tru…
- FYI: I'll be leaving my home at Foreign Policy Magazine this month and will update later on plans. It's been a nice run.
