Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin has been selected as the Democratic lawmaker to deliver the liberal party’s rebuttal to President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday evening.
Slotkin, 48, was only elected to the U.S. Senate in November but previously spent six years representing a Michigan district in the House. She worked as a CIA analyst during the Iraq War and also served in the State Department and Department of Defense under the Obama administration.