T his article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. The White House on Thursday announced it was walking away from the nomination of Elise Stefanik to be the United States’ representative at the United Nations, a plum gig that has been a launching pad for folks like George H.W. Bush and Madeleine Albright. In pulling the nom, the Trump administration acknowledged that the Republicans’ slim majority in the House would be