The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds a confirmation hearing for Republican Senator Marco Rubio, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to serve as secretary of state.
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Trump has given the Florida senator Marco Rubio the job of secretary of state to serve as a key architect of an “America First” foreign policy.
Rubio, 53, has taken hawkish positions on US adversaries such as China, Iran, Venezuela and Cuba while championing America’s alliances, including Nato. Defeated by Trump in a bitter fight for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, he is now a close ally, bringing a more traditional conservative outlook to an administration packed with Maga loyalists.
The son of Cuban immigrants who would be the first Latino to lead the State Department, Rubio has years of foreign policy and national security experience and is the senior Republican on both the Senate foreign relations and intelligence committees. He built his reputation by supporting the overthrow of authoritarian governments in Latin America, the Middle East and Asia, but has softened his neoconservative worldview to align with Trump in recent years.
Like most of Washington, Rubio supported Ukraine against the Russian invasion in 2022 but has shifted his position over recent months as the war has dragged on, declaring that the US was “funding a stalemate”. He voted against a $95 billion military aid package for Kyiv last year and has said in recent interviews that the country must seek a negotiated settlement to end the conflict.
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