2026年3月11日 1:14 AM UTC / 路透社
美国华盛顿特区国务院大楼外的美国国务院标志远景图，2025年7月11日。路透社/Annabelle Gordon/资料图片
- 摘要
- 被提名为国际组织职位候选人
- 犹他州参议员称卡尔不适合该职位
- 在听证会上因有关种族和犹太人的言论受到严厉质询
华盛顿，3月10日（路透社） – 美国总统唐纳德·特朗普提名的国务院高级职位候选人周二撤回了提名，此前他关于犹太人和削弱白人权力的争议性言论激起了罕见的共和党人对总统候选人的反对。
特朗普提名的负责国际组织事务的助理国务卿杰里米·卡尔在社交平台X上发表的声明中感谢特朗普和国务卿马尔科·卢比奥的支持，但表示他们的支持还不够。
“考虑到参议院民主党人对我的候选人资格一致反对，我们还需要外交关系委员会中每一位共和党参议员的一致支持，不幸的是，目前这种一致支持尚未到来，”卡尔使用“大老党”（共和党昵称）的首字母缩写说道。
有影响力的参议院委员会通常会先对提名进行投票，然后再提交给参议院进行确认投票。
自2月卡尔提名听证会之后，犹他州共和党参议员约翰·柯蒂斯表示他认为卡尔不是代表美国在国际组织中最佳利益的合适人选，卡尔的提名就一直存疑。
柯蒂斯指出卡尔的“反以色列观点”以及对犹太人“不敏感的言论”是不合格的因素。
在共和党占多数的参议院中，不支持特朗普的提名人是罕见的指责，迄今为止，参议院一直支持总统的绝大多数提名和政策。
白宫和国务院未立即回应置评请求。
国会议员在听证会上质问卡尔关于他此前对犹太人的言论以及他对“伟大替换理论”的信仰——这是一种与白人至上主义相关的、被驳斥的阴谋论，认为左翼和犹太精英正在策划用非白人移民取代白人的种族和文化。
卡尔在听证会上表示他不记得参议员宣读的某些言论是自己说的，并且对其他一些言论表示后悔。“我在采访中发表了一些淡化大屠杀影响的言论，这些言论绝对是错误的，”他说。
当被问及是否正在进行取代美国白人的努力时，卡尔表示他认为民主党移民政策“当然发出了这样的信号”。
卡尔目前是保守派克莱蒙特研究所的高级研究员。他曾在特朗普第一任期内担任内政部副部长助理。
报道：Ryan Patrick Jones 和 Humeyra Pamuk；编辑：Cynthia Osterman
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Trump nominee for State Department role drops out after his race comments jeopardized confirmation
March 11, 2026 1:14 AM UTC / Reuters
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A general view of a U.S. State Department sign outside the U.S. State Department building in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 11, 2025. REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon/File Photo
- Nominated for international organizations position
- Utah senator said Carl was not the right person for the job
- Grilled at hearing over comments on race, Jewish people
WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s nominee for a senior State Department position withdrew from consideration on Tuesday after his controversial comments about Jewish people and diminishing white power stirred rare Republican opposition to the president’s choice.
In a statement on X, Jeremy Carl, Trump’s nominee for assistant secretary of state for international organizations, thanked Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for their support, but said their backing was not sufficient.
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“We also needed the unanimous support of every GOP Senator on the Committee on Foreign Relations, given the unanimous opposition of Senate Democrats to my candidacy, and unfortunately, at this time this unanimous support was not forthcoming,” Carl said, using the acronym for Grand Old Party, a nickname for the Republican Party.
The influential Senate committee typically votes on a nomination before sending it to the full Senate for a confirmation vote.
Carl’s nomination was in doubt since Republican Senator John Curtis of Utah, a member of the committee, said after Carl’s nomination hearing in February he did not believe Carl was the right person to represent the country’s best interests at international organizations.
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Curtis cited Carl’s “anti-Israel views” and “insensitive remarks” about Jewish people as disqualifying factors.
Failing to support a Trump nominee is a rare rebuke by the Republican-majority Senate, which to date has backed the vast majority of the president’s nominations and policies.
The White House and State Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Lawmakers questioned Carl at the hearing about his prior comments about Jewish people and his belief in the “great replacement theory,” a discredited conspiracy theory associated with white supremacy that leftist and Jewish elites are engineering the ethnic and cultural replacement of white people with non-white immigrants.
Carl said at the hearing that he did not remember making some of the comments read aloud by senators and he regretted some others. “I made some comments in interviews about minimizing the effects of the Holocaust that were absolutely wrong,” he said.
When asked at the hearing whether there was an effort to replace white Americans under way, Carl said he believed Democratic immigration policies have “certainly sent signs of that.”
Carl is currently a senior fellow at the conservative Claremont Institute think tank. He was a deputy assistant secretary of the interior during Trump’s first term.
Reporting by Ryan Patrick Jones and Humeyra Pamuk; Editing by Cynthia Osterman
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