The US embassy in Morocco has been without an ambassador since 2017. The US Senators have not confirmed yet the nomination of American businessman David T. Fischer, who was named by Donald Trump as the US new ambassador to Morocco two years ago.
After the US House of Representatives passed a bill that treats Western Sahara as a «sovereign entity», pro-Polisario lobbyists in the Senate took the lead, stressing that they would endorse MPs’ will to exclude the Saharan provinces from economic assistance granted to the Kingdom.