Nikki Haley has resigned as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Her last day on the job is still unknown, but President Trump has accepted her resignation after a White House meeting last week where they discussed her departure.
Trump and Haley will meet at 10:30am Tuesday in the Oval Office. Beforehand on Twitter, Trump teased a “big announcement” about his “friend,” originally one of his early critics.
As top diplomat to the UN, the former South Carolina governor earned a tough-as-nails reputation in her expectations of other countries, promoting the administration’s “America First” foreign policy.
She withdrew the U.S. from the body’s Human Rights Council, calling it “an exercise in shameless hypocrisy – with many of the world's worst human rights abuses going ignored, and some of the world's most serious offenders sitting on the council itself.”
The announcement of Haley’s departure reportedly shocked senior foreign policy officials in the administration.
“I don't agree with the president on everything. When there is disagreement, there is a right way and a wrong way to address it. I pick up the phone and call him or meet with him in person,” Haley wrote in an op-ed for the Washington Post last month. “I have very open access to the president. He does not shut out his advisers, and he does not demand that everyone agree with him. I can talk to him most any time, and I frequently do.”
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