Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio is among the few of President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet proposals to have bipartisan support for the post. However, a top reporter is anticipating he won't last long at Foggy Bottom due to a combination of factors,
He’s being undermined by fellow Republicans, and that’s before he shows up to lead a workforce Trump distrusts.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio is unlikely to last longer than a year or two as Donald Trump’s top diplomat. Rubio, whose confirmation hearing as Secretary of State is scheduled for Wednesday, is viewed suspiciously by a MAGA base that sees him as “too hawkish and interventionist,
The only real challenge Rubio faced came from sporadic protesters who would shout at him, sometimes in Spanish, before being escorted out. “Oh, I get bilingual protesters,” Rubio said after one such outburst, while the lawmakers chuckled and then dove right back into the hearing.
Neither Lara Trump nor Vivek Ramaswamy will join the Senate. But it’s likely the president-elect didn’t really go to the mat for their appointments.
Marco Rubio and former Florida Attorney General Pam ... Bondi mostly stuck to the MAGA script, echoing Trump’s claims that he was wrongly prosecuted by the Justice Department for political ...
Marco Rubio offered Britain and other Western states a stark view of the next four years: they will be dealing with a self-interested ally unafraid of flexing its muscles
Congratulations, Marco Rubio! You’ll soon be secretary of State ... Rubio already is being undermined — through push-back from Trump’s MAGA base, the naming of other Trump appointees with overlapping portfolios as well as the essentially weak ...
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is receiving a warm welcome at his confirmation hearing to become secretary of State.
Mr. Rubio expressed views aligned with those of most senators who work on foreign policy, while taking care not to break from Donald J. Trump’s unorthodox ideas.
Political analyst Mark Halperin criticized Senate Democrats on Thursday for their handling of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees during confirmation hearings, accusing them of prioritizing attacks on Trump