Nikki Haley Resigns As U.N. Ambassador

NPR Staff

October 09, 2018 / 7:53 am

caption: In this Aug. 28, 2018 file photo, American Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Myanmar at United Nations headquarters.

Nikki Haley has resigned as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

It is not immediately clear what has prompted the move. She informed her staff Tuesday of the news, NPR's Michele Kelemen reports. Haley is scheduled to appear with President Trump at the Oval Office Tuesday morning.

Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, has been a fierce advocate for Trump's policies at the U.N.

"I proudly serve in this administration, and I enthusiastically support most of its decisions and the direction it is taking the country," Haley wrote in The Washington Post last month, after The New York Times published an anonymous op-ed critical of the Trump administration. "But I don't agree with the president on everything."

This is a developing story, please see NPR for the latest updates.

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