We don't view this as an opening for anyone.

The odds are high,” Rubio told journalists gathered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Friday.

We’re resetting tariff levels with virtually every country in the world,” he told journalists, noting that such imbalances are “unfair to America and American workers.

We took a very deliberate step to reorganize the State Department to be more efficient and more focused.

We view it as an opportunity to reset global trade in a way that's fair for Americans after two or three decades of unfairness.

The cuts will make the diplomatic department more efficient and more focused.

When you reorganize the State Department, there were certain bureaus we wanted to empower, the regional bureaus, and there were certain bureaus, these functional bureaus, that were closed.

I don’t want to overpromise

I think it's a new and a different approach.

We hope that can change.

The reduction of force is a consequence of the reorg. It’s not a consequence of trying to get rid of people.

[Trump] has talked about that as being a real option, and now, obviously, we’ve been engaging with the Senate in particular over the last week on what that bill will look like.