Marco Rubio

It’s not a consequence of trying to get rid of people. But if you close the bureau, you don’t need those positions.

Trade needed to be revisited, he campaigned on that and that's what he's doing, he's setting it out on a global scale.

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.

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

The idea that Japan’s military would become more capable is not something we would be offended by; it’s something we would actually be encouraged by.

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.

That was our message – that (we have) the opportunity here to achieve some strategic stability and identify areas where we can cooperate together on and build better communications and a working trust.

I thought it was (a) very constructive, positive meeting, and (there’s) a lot of work to do.

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

Some of these are positions that are being eliminated, not people.

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

We will not tolerate these campaigns of political and economic warfare which threaten our national interests and sovereignty.

Albanese has spewed unabashed antisemitism, expressed support for terrorism, and open contempt for the United States, Israel, and the West.

The United States has repeatedly condemned and objected to the biased and malicious activities of Albanese that have long made her unfit for service as a Special Rapporteur.

[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.

We need to see a road map moving forward about how this conflict can conclude.

We hope that can change.

It’s important to note that since January of this year, as an example just to give you, on the Russian side, they’ve lost 100,000 soldiers – dead – not injured – dead.

These are relationships and partnerships that we intend to continue to build on without seeking the approval or the permission of any other actor in the region of the world.

Distraction is impossible, because it is our strong view and the reality that this century and the story of next 50 years will largely be written here in this region.

The Indo Pacific, the region, remains a focal point of U.S. foreign policy.

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

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.

We went very specifically through and reorganized the State Department.

I’m proud of the way the Trump administration had undertaken a reorganization that was arguably the most deliberate way of anyone that’s done one.