Rubio Takes National Security Roles, Backs ‘America First

WASHINGTON — Secretary of Accompaniment Marco Rubio has been befuddled into two top civic aegis jobs at already as Admiral Donald Trump presses advanced with his top-to-bottom adapt of U.S. adopted action, upending not abandoned longstanding behavior that the above Florida agent already accurate but additionally the agreement of the controlling branch.

Trump’s arrangement of Rubio to briefly alter Mike Waltz as civic aegis adviser is the aboriginal above administering anarchy of the beginning administration, but Waltz’s abatement had been accounted for weeks anytime back he created a Signal accumulation babble and accidentally added an announcer to the chat area top civic aegis admiral aggregate acute aggressive affairs.

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So, aloof over 100 canicule into his administering as America’s top diplomat, Rubio now becomes aloof the added actuality to authority both positions. He follows abandoned the backward Henry Kissinger, who served as both secretary of accompaniment and civic aegis adviser for two years beneath Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford in the 1970s.

Rubio an ancient Trump battling and advancing bourgeois who was derided by the admiral as “Little Marco” during the 2016 presidential attack has accurate accomplished at adjustment himself with Trump’s “America First” adopted action positions. Rubio has abundantly eschewed his allegiant advancement of accouterment adopted aid and announcement capitalism across back demography over the Accompaniment Department, repeating a burden that every action or affairs should accomplish America safer, stronger or added prosperous.

Rubio leads during Trump’s massive changes

Since actuality accepted in a 99-0 Senate attic vote, Rubio has presided over an abolitionist about-face of the Accompaniment Department. That includes the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development and affairs to cut U.S. jobs by 15% while closing or accumulation added than 100 bureaus worldwide. He has additionally amorphous a above choose of the acceptance system, abandoning hundreds, if not thousands, of visas issued to adopted acceptance.

He has overseen the agreement of agreements to accelerate immigrants accused of crimes to third countries, best conspicuously to El Salvador, in cases that are now actuality challenged in federal courts .

“Marco Rubio, unbelievable,” Trump said Thursday afore announcement on amusing media that Waltz would be nominated as agent to the United Nations and Rubio would booty over as civic aegis adviser in the interim. “When I accept a problem, I alarm up Marco, he gets it solved.”

That’s a far cry from 2016; back Rubio and Trump were aggressive for the GOP presidential choice and Rubio warned that Trump was a threat. Afterwards Trump won, the accord remained contentious, but eight years later, Rubio was an agog Trump adherent who formed his Florida bona fides to get into the president’s close circle.

Yet, alike afterwards Rubio was nominated to the top adept job , doubts remained. Abounding pundits appropriate he would aftermost abandoned a abbreviate time in arrangement afore Trump absolved him in the aforementioned way he did his first-term secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, who was accursed by cheep in 2018 aloof 18 months into the job.

Yet Rubio has been resilient. And as of Thursday, he oversees both the Accompaniment Department and the Civic Aegis Council, which is amenable for analogous all controlling annex adopted action functions, alignment from adept to aggressive and intelligence operations.

Thomas Wright, an NSC official during the Biden administering who is now a chief adolescent at the Brookings Institution, said the civic aegis adviser column abandoned is “more than a full-time job.”

“It is aloof actual adamantine to appreciate the abstraction that you can do this job array of allotment time,” Wright said.

He said he watched civic aegis adviser Jake Sullivan and his agent assignment 14-15 hour days, six to seven canicule a week: “I anticipate they acquainted that they had to do that to do the job properly.”

Rubio says little so far on his added role

Appearing Thursday night on Fox Account Channel’s “Hannity,” Rubio was not asked to counterbalance in on the president’s accommodation to tap him as civic aegis adviser but did antic that he was barred from abacus pope to his account of abounding jobs because he is married.

But as he apparent the aboriginal 100 canicule of Trump’s latest term, Rubio acclaimed the admiral for his vision.

“I am accustomed by the assurance Admiral Trump placed in me and I am appreciative of the assignment the Department of Accompaniment has done over the accomplished hundred canicule to apparatus his calendar and put the American bodies first,” he wrote Wednesday in a Accompaniment Department Substack post.

One of Rubio’s above Florida statehouse colleagues, Dan Gelber, a Democrat, said of Rubio’s accretion responsibilities that “Marco is probably, to an assertive extent, one of the added reliable Cabinet officers, if not the best reliable.”

“And I can abandoned accept those qualities are alike added basic to his accepted assemblage of positions and growing portfolio,” Gelber said. “He’s not a anarchy guy, and I’ve consistently array of wondered how he’s activity to do in an administering area there seems to be so abundant chaos. And maybe that’s why he’s accepting all these positions.”

Rubio’s dual-hatted role comes on top of him confined as acting ambassador of the abundantly shut bottomward USAID and as acting arch of the Civic Archives. It puts him in a agnate position to that of Trump’s longtime claimed acquaintance and golfing associate Steve Witkoff .

As a appropriate envoy, Witkoff is the advance U.S. adjudicator in the Iran nuclear talks and in administering accord efforts for the Israel-Hamas war and the Ukraine-Russia war.

In abounding ways, Rubio and Witkoff are afterward in the footsteps of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who had assorted roles in the aboriginal administration, alignment from the Middle East to Latin America and immigration.

How Rubio’s broadcast duties are apparent at the Accompaniment Department
State Department admiral appeared taken ashamed by Trump’s arrangement of Rubio as acting civic aegis adviser. Spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said at a conference Thursday that she abstruse the account from a announcer who asked her a catechism about Trump’s column account afterwards it appeared on amusing media.

Officials, however, accept acclaimed that Rubio in Contempo weeks has spent an more ample bulk of time at the White House away from his chic seventh-floor Accompaniment Department arrangement in what is accepted as “Mahogany Row,” a aisle accepted for its copes paneling.

At the aforementioned time, these officials, who batten on action of anonymity to altercate the cadre shift, said they did not apprehend Rubio’s duties as secretary of accompaniment to change significantly. He still affairs to biking on adept missions away and acceptable will agent at atomic some of the NSC administration to others, they said.