Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., said Tuesday the United Nations has not lived up to its founding mission but can be reformed through strong American leadership.

Stefanik, who testified at her Senate confirmation hearing to be President Donald Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, has long been a critic of the international body, once referring to it as a “den of antisemitism” and “apologist for Iran.”

“I don’t think the U.N. has lived up to its founding mission [of] international peace and security,” Stefanik told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “It is imperative to ensure strong American leadership at the United Nations. I share President Trump’s vision of a U.N. reformed by strong America first peace-through-strength leadership and a return to its founding mission of promoting peace and security around the world.”

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