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. From serving on the National Security Council staff between 2009 to 2013 to becoming U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017, it is clear to me that Ambassador Power is eminently qualified to serve as USAID Administrator and that her experience, expertise, and leadership will help to restore America’s standing on the world’s stage and our role as a leader in responding to crises – from COVID-19 to conflict – and to development challenges the world over.”