WASHINGTON — Four Republican members of Congress introduced legislation this week to establish a new State Department position that would be tasked with combating communism and authoritarianism.
The proposed “Special Envoy to Combat Global Rise of Authoritarian Socialism and Communism” would be modeled after a similar State Department ambassador-level position that was created in 2004 to combat global antisemitism.
The legislation was led by Republican U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez, a former Miami-Dade mayor who was born in Cuba and whose family immigrated to the U.S. in 1960 after the Cuban Revolution.
