More than two years into his term, President Biden has yet to name anyone to serve as his ambassador in Rome, traditionally one of the choicest positions in the State Department.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi receives honorary citizenship from the small Italian village where her mother was born. Photo: Alessandro Serranó/AGF/Universal Images Group via Getty Imagesas ambassador to India, senators and Democratic donors are turning their attention to something of a Biden-era mystery: the open embassy in Italy.
With deep economic and cultural ties to the United States, Italy, a member of NATO, is front and center both in arming Ukraine and diversifying Europe’s energy supply.with private gardens and a wine cellar — the embassy offers plenty of substance for any former Wall Street executive, or former member of Congress, interested in foreign affairs.
But with Pelosi not making any visible moves to leave Congress, the theory that Biden was preserving Italy for Pelosi has lost some currency., a former Wall Street executive with ties to Pelosi, for Italy. But he is no longer in the mix, according to people familiar with the matter.Biden, who campaigned on restoring America’s diplomatic relations across the globe, has had more of his ambassadors confirmed than President Trump.
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