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On the recordJuly 16, 2017
The State Department's core is being gutted. Tillerson is running Foggy Bottom the way a corporate raider might take over a company.
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Marco Rubio
Republican · Florida

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Criticism of Secretary Tillerson's management of the State Department.

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