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Booker Meets with Ambassador Samantha Power, Nominee to Serve as USAID Administrator February 1, 2021, 5:16 pm | in
Booker Meets with Ambassador Samantha Power, Nominee to Serve as USAID Administrator
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, met with
Ambassador Samantha Power, President Joe Biden’s nominee to serve as USAID Administrator.
Following their meeting, Senator Booker issued the following statement:
“I had the opportunity to meet virtually with Ambassador Samantha Power, who has been nominated to serve as USAID Administrator. We discussed the complex security challenges facing the world today including climate change, the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region and instability in the Horn of Africa, Libya, and the Middle East. We discussed how the Biden Administration can work together with Congress to reassert U.S. credibility and moral leadership. Fr
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday named Samantha Power, the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, as his choice to lead the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), citing her deep experience addressing crises around the world.