Donald Trump names Daniel Perez as Ambassador to Brazil in latest round of appointments
The nomination adds to Trump’s Florida-heavy appointments and would send Perez to a key diplomatic post subject to Senate confirmation.
- On Monday, President Donald Trump nominated Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez as U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, the largest country in South America and one of the United States' most significant trade and diplomatic partners in the region.
- Perez, a Republican from Miami, has led the Florida House while frequently clashing with Governor Ron DeSantis over establishing the Legislature as a coequal branch of government alongside the executive branch.
- Alongside this nomination, Trump announced former Lieutenant Governor Jennifer Johnson-Carroll as Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago and lawyer Douglas Holder as Ambassador to Bulgaria, part of a broader batch of Florida-connected appointments sent to the Senate.
- All nominees require confirmation by the U.S. Senate before assuming their respective diplomatic posts, a procedural step that gives lawmakers authority to approve or reject Trump's selections.
- A Florida Politics analysis last year catalogued 40 prominent Floridians holding influential positions across the executive branch and diplomatic posts worldwide, reflecting an extraordinary concentration of Florida-connected power under Trump's second term.
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President Donald Trump sent the Senate on Monday a package of diplomatic nominations that includes the future ambassadors of the United States in four countries of South America: Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay and Ecuador. The most striking nomination is that of Daniel Perez, current president of the House of Representatives of Florida, to head the embassy in Brazil. Perez, of Cuban origin and from Miami, has been one of the most critical Republican…
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