President Biden will appoint former Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Joe Kennedy III – a grandson of former senator and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy — to be the next U.S. special envoy to Northern Ireland, a U.S. official confirmed to CBS News.
President Biden will appoint former Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Joe Kennedy III – a grandson of former senator and Attorney General — to be the next U.S. special envoy to Northern Ireland, a U.S. official confirmed to CBS News. The position will focus on economic development and not the thorny negotiations involving the Northern Ireland Protocol.
Kennedy, who has the cachet of his family legacy and historic ties to Ireland, will be a high-profile appointee who carries the weight of close ties to Mr. Biden himself. It will also be a perch from which the 42-year-old former congressman can relaunch his political career, which has stalled following his failed 2020 challenge to Sen. Ed Markey in the Massachusetts Democratic primary.
Mick Mulvaney, President Trump's appointee to the role, left the special envoy position in 2021. Mulvaney, a CBS contributor, told CBS News:"This is an excellent choice. Joe is extraordinarily capable and will do a great job of representing U.S. interests. There are very few bipartisan topics in Washington these days but preserving the Good Friday-Belfast Agreement is one of them. And Joe will have bipartisan support for his efforts.", during which more than 3,000 people died.
Unionists are predominantly Protestant and want continued ties to England. Nationalists are largely Catholic and want closer connections to the Republic of Ireland which gained independence from British rule in 1921.UK, EU and Ireland work out the Northern ProtocolIt will also be historic for the Kennedy family. The coming year will mark 60 years since President John F.
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