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Jeremy Carl, a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, withdrew his nomination for a high-ranking State Department role on Tuesday following bipartisan backlash.
President Trump had tapped Carl to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organisation Affairs, a position that would have overseen US policy at the United Nations.
However, Carl acknowledged on X that he lacked the unanimous Republican support required to pass the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, given the unified opposition from Democratic lawmakers.
This will be a bit more formal than usual, but I wanted to announce that I am withdrawing my nomination for consideration as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs. I am tremendously grateful to President Trump for nominating me and then (upon… pic.twitter.com/S6nEamTZg4
— Jeremy Carl (@realJeremyCarl) March 10, 2026
The withdrawal was largely triggered by a history of controversial statements regarding Jewish and Black Americans.
Critics, led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, pointed to Carl’s previous assertions that Jewish people “love to play the victim” and his claims that certain historical professions made them “oppressive.”
Additionally, Carl had publicly denounced Juneteenth as a “race-hustling” holiday.
Moderate Republican Senator John Curtis joined the opposition, labelling Carl’s views as “unbecoming” for a diplomatic representative of the United States.
While Carl thanked the president and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for their backing, his exit marks a rare defeat for the administration’s personnel choices in a Senate that has otherwise confirmed most of Trump’s picks.
The controversy adds to a tense atmosphere surrounding the administration’s rhetoric on race and ethnicity, including recent disparaging remarks made by the president about Somali-Americans following a fraud scandal in Minnesota.
