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Marco Rubio confirmed by Senate to be next secretary of state, becomes first Trump cabinet pick to be approved

by January 21, 2025
written by January 21, 2025

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was confirmed unanimously by the Senate to be the next secretary of state, making him the first of President Trump’s Cabinet picks to receive congressional approval.

Rubio, a senator since 2011, was confirmed during a floor vote by the full Senate Monday night, several hours after Trump took his oath of office earlier in the day. The full Senate floor vote occurred following a separate vote by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which also voted unanimously in favor of Rubio’s nomination Monday.  

Rubio enters his role as secretary of state with a strong foreign policy background as a longtime member of the Senate’s Foreign Relations and Intelligence Committees. He is also a first-generation Cuban American.

 

His road to confirmation has been less controversial than many of Trump’s other Cabinet picks. At Rubio’s first confirmation hearing last week in front of the Foreign Relations Committee, the committee’s top-ranking Democrat, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, said she thought Rubio possessed ‘the skills’ and is ‘well-qualified’ to serve as the next secretary of state. She echoed this sentiment Monday evening as well before the full Senate vote.

‘I’ve had a good working relationship with Sen. Rubio for many years, and I was very impressed during his hearing by his grasp of policy,’ Shaheen said Monday evening. ‘While we may not always agree, I believe he has the skills, knowledge and qualifications to be secretary of state.’

 

Rubio expressed during his initial confirmation hearing last week that under Trump the State Department’s ‘top priority’ will be to put America first. 

‘This will not be easy,’ Rubio said. ‘And it will be impossible without a strong and a confident America that engages in the world, putting our core national interests, once again, above all else.’

Rubio will face some major challenges heading into his new role, notably the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine and the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

Rubio described the fighting between Ukraine and Russia as a ‘stalemate’ that ‘has to end’ during his confirmation hearing last week, adding that under Trump’s proposed peace deal both countries will have to make ‘concessions.’ Meanwhile, despite Trump’s past criticisms of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Rubio called the alliance ‘very important’ and insisted that Trump was also a NATO supporter.

On Gaza, Rubio supported Israel’s actions to defend itself against Hamas but stopped short of indicating one way or the other if he thought Israel’s annexation of parts of the West Bank was something he supported. 

‘The idea would be that there not be conflict and the people could live side-by-side with one another without being in conflict and with the ability to pursue prosperity,’ Rubio said. ‘Sadly and unfortunately the conditions for that to exist have not been in place for a substantial period of time.’

Rubio also repeatedly singled out China during his remarks in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week. ‘We welcomed the Chinese Communist Party into this global order. And they took advantage of all its benefits. But they ignored all its obligations and responsibilities,’ Rubio posited at his hearing. ‘Instead, they have lied, cheated, hacked and stolen their way to global superpower status, at our expense.’

While Rubio did not face significant opposition to his confirmation, some Trump-aligned Republicans have expressed disdain over Rubio’s willingness to certify the results of the 2020 election that Trump alleged was ‘stolen’ from him. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who has been an outspoken supporter of less U.S. intervention, also questioned Rubio’s hawkish stance on American intervention amid his confirmation to be secretary of state.

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