While many of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees have faced intense scrutiny from Senate Democrats during their confirmation hearings, Rep. Elise Stefanik might be met with slightly more support, The Hill reported on Saturday.

The congresswoman from upstate New York made a name for herself last year when she led the charge against rampant antisemitism across college campuses grilling the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and M.I.T. in April of 2024. Harvard’s Claudine Gay and Penn’s Liz Magill resigned following pressure as a result of the hearings.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., is one such Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that is open to Stefanik becoming the U.S. Representative to the United Nations, a pivot from her tension-filled confrontations with attorney general nominee Pam Bondi and Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth.

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