Answer:
The President has the power to appoint federal judges, ambassadors, and other principal officers of the United States, but the Senate needs to confirm these positions.
Explanation:
Principal officers includes ambassadors and Members of the Cabinet.
It happened baecuase the french has stakes in the economy and they also didn't want comunism to spread.
The XYZ affair was a diplomatic incident in the late 1790s in the Adams administration wherein the French government demanded bribes before negotiations were able to even begin and the correspondence was released. A small Naval war broke out and the Adams administration used the furor against the French to hurt the Democratic Republicans and build up the national military.
