Miami Republican Rep. Carlos Trujillo is moving up in the Trump administration, to be U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States.
The White House announced Trujillo’s appointment Thursday, just two months after President Donald Trump named him one of four U.S. representatives to the United Nations General Assembly. That job made Trujillo, an early Trump campaign supporter who attended the president’s inauguration, one of U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s four deputies.
“It’s an honor to be nominated,” Trujillo said as he was heading to the airport for New York, where he is giving a speech Thursday on war crimes in Rwanda at the International Criminal Tribunal. At 34, Trujillo said he is the youngest Trump nominee.
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