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Marco Rubio

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U.S. Secretary of State in the Trump administration; formerly U.S. Senator from Florida.

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Feb 5, 2025

We're going to continue to provide foreign aid and to be involved in programs, but it has to be programs that we can defend.

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Feb 4, 2025

It was not meant as a hostile move. It was meant as a very generous move, the offer to rebuild and to be in charge of the rebuilding of a place many parts of which right now, even if people move back, they would have nowhere to live…

newsweek.com
Feb 4, 2025

There are things that we do through USAID that we should continue to do that make sense.

newsweek.com
Feb 4, 2025

We urge you to use your fiscal year 2023 budget request for the Defense Department, the Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development to send a clear message that the United States has a comprehensive strategy to…

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Feb 4, 2025

This is not about getting rid of foreign aid.

newsweek.com
Feb 4, 2025

to weaken and even destroy the agency is the benefit of neither political party and the detriment of all Americans.

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Feb 4, 2025

Secretary of State Marco Rubio approved the removal of the diplomatic security detail from both Pompeo and Hook.

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Feb 4, 2025

It was not meant as a hostile move, it was meant as a, I think, a very generous move, the offer to rebuild.

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Feb 4, 2025

The billions of dollars that are going to be required for reconstruction are enormous.

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Feb 4, 2025

We don't have to give foreign aid. We do so because it furthers our national interest. That's why we give foreign aid.

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Feb 4, 2025

So, what he's very generously has offered is the ability of the United States to go in and help with debris removal, help with munitions removal, help with reconstruction, the rebuilding of homes and businesses and things of this nature so…

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