The order declares the International Criminal Court’s actions to be “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”

“The US should stop using the politically-charged term ‘West Bank’ to refer to the biblical heartland of Israel,” says senator who proposed the bill.

“That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said.

The congresswoman fielded questions about Israel from Senate panel in confirmation hearing to be US ambassador to the United Nations.

President-elect Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee faced tough questions from Democrats in the more than four-hour confirmation hearing.

“US citizens have a right to be heard and to challenge the government before the government takes action against them.”

“Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied history of the US,” the president-elect wrote. “Release the hostages now.”

The president-elect’s picks suggest that his administration will “take the region, the Middle East, the threats confronting Israel seriously.”

“A move to downgrade Israel’s status at the United Nations would be a new low, even for an organization that is as rife with antisemites as the UN,” said Sen. Tom Cotton.

“The letter was not meant as a threat,” said John Kirby, the White House national security communications advisor. “We have to follow the law of the land here.”