Two Republicans join Senate Democrats to advance Eric Garcetti nomination despite sexual harassment scandal
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Two GOP senators voted to advance embattled former LA Mayor Eric Garcetti despite his possible knowledge and enablement of sexual harassment in his former office
Hagerty and Young broke from all other committee Republicans who voted against Garcetti. Ranking member Jim Risch, R-Idaho, remarked on Wednesday that "while information on the question of his knowledge of harassment by a former senior aide is still being collected, new evidence has raised enough questions regarding his judgment that I will be voting no." Brianna Herlihy is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
"It’s a national security imperative to immediately have an ambassador in place in India. We can't afford to wait any longer," Young told Fox News Digital of his vote.
A spokesperson for Hagerty said that "for more than two years, the Biden Administration and Senate Democrats have failed to get a Senate-confirmed Ambassador to India—the world’s largest democracy, a rising economic power, and one of our most important strategic partners in the Indo-Pacific.