America says it’s back. But where are its ambassadors?
The painfully slow confirmation process is a window into Washington dysfunction
CERTAIN SIGNIFICANT people were nowhere to be seen as Joe Biden touched down last week in the three countries he visited on his first trip abroad as president: American ambassadors. Mr Biden has yet to nominate envoys to Britain, Belgium or Switzerland, much less to guide them through the bog of Senate confirmation.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “The Foreign Not-in-Service”
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