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Probationary UN Ambassador Elise Stefanik Gets “Fork In the Road” Notice
Like thousands of others, Elise Stefanik saw her probationary period for higher employment end on the whims of the Trump Administration.
Like thousands of others who work in government over the last few months, Elise Stefanik saw her probationary period for higher employment end on the whims of the Trump Administration. There was a farewell tour, congressional career retrospective running on her social media accounts, glow up, and even sitting with Stefanik’s presumed new colleagues and cohorts in the cabinet during President Trump’s address to a joint session of congress. For the super ambitious Stefanik, who turned from the path of Ivy League & New York political bona fides to jump on the MAGA train, to be tripped up by thin congressional margins and an intemperate Trump Team was not on her pathway to success itinerary. She wasn’t fired; no, that would be wrong, don’t you dare put in the paper she was fired, or disappointed, or in any way mad. She simply came to a fork in the road, you see.
Now, instead of being seated with the cabinet for the next Trump address to congress, Representative Stefanik will be but one of the 435. Instead of hobnobbing with the hierarchy of world leaders in Turtle Bay…
