Jeremy Carl, the Trump administration’s choose for a prime State Department place, is unlikely to get the job after a bipartisan group of senators grilled him over his historical past of racist, sexist and reported antisemitic comments and posts.
Republican Sen. John Curtis of Utah stated in an announcement following the heated Senate Foreign Relations Committee affirmation listening to Thursday that he wouldn’t help Carl’s nomination for assistant secretary of state for worldwide organizations.
“After reviewing his record and participating in today’s hearing, I do not believe that Jeremy Carl is the right person to represent our nation’s best interests in international forums, and I find his anti-Israel views and insensitive remarks about the Jewish people unbecoming of the position for which he has been nominated,” Curtis stated.
The Republican’s opposition is likely to sink Carl’s nomination – if all Democrats on the committee additionally vote no, he is not going to have the votes to advance. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has additionally opposed his nomination.
A White House official informed NCS on Thursday night that Carl continues to be the nominee.
NCS’s KFile uncovered in September 2025 that Carl deleted hundreds of social media posts, many demonstrating a historical past of inflammatory commentary – together with incendiary posts about race, claims that “peaceful coexistence” with Democrats is not possible, and even a name for a political opponent to face the dying penalty.
Carl additionally repeatedly wrote concerning the “Great Replacement,” a conspiracy principle that posits there’s a plot to deliberately carry non-White immigrants into Western nations to “replace” White populations.
In his listening to Thursday, Carl was pressed on these previous comments and others, together with a 2024 podcast look wherein he reportedly stated, “Jews have often loved to play the victim,” and that “the Holocaust dominates so much of modern Jewish history,” in accordance to Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a New Hampshire Democrat.
Shaheen, the rating member of the committee, stated that since his nomination, Carl had “tweeted more than 850 times, appeared on five podcasts and repeated this language.”
“This is a pattern,” she stated.
“It’s hard to understand how we can trust you if you can’t even restrain yourself during the period in which you’ve been nominated,” she informed him.
Carl argued that he understands “the importance of restraint and conduct.”
“I unfortunately have to balance that with my current job which involves advocacy. I can’t, as I’ve explained, just totally put away my day job,” he stated. Carl is a senior fellow on the Claremont Institute, a conservative assume tank. He served as a former deputy assistant secretary on the Interior Department throughout President Donald Trump’s first time period.
In an alternate with Democratic Sen. Cory Booker, Carl stated he regretted a few of his previous comments about Jewish folks.
“I made some comments in interviews about minimizing the effect of the Holocaust that were absolutely wrong. And I’m not going to sit here and defend them here,” he stated.
However, pressed on whether or not he regretted comments he has made about different races, Carl stated he was “echoing” Trump that “unity rather than diversity is a strength.”
Sen. Chris Murphy stated that Carl’s nomination was “heartbreaking,” calling him “wildly unqualified” for the place. The Connecticut Democrat spent a number of minutes questioning Carl on views about “anti-White discrimination” and “the erasure of White culture.”
Carl struggled to reply Murphy’s questions on what constitutes “White culture,” however alluded to “mass immigration” erasing “common American culture” and saying that it “weakens us.”
Curtis, the Utah Republican, pressed Carl on how he would have the ability to get up to alleged anti-Israel bias on the United Nations given his earlier comments.
And Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen, who’s Jewish, known as Carl’s previous comments “vile” and stated his nomination “should alarm every Senator who believes in basic decency.”
NCS has reached out to the State Department about Carl’s nomination. In September 2025, spokespeople for each the division and the White House defended the nominee.
NCS’s Andrew Kaczynski, Em Steck and Morgan Rimmer contributed to this report.