Marco Rubio
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U.S. Secretary of State in the Trump administration; formerly U.S. Senator from Florida.
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.
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…
There are things that we do through USAID that we should continue to do that make sense.
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…
to weaken and even destroy the agency is the benefit of neither political party and the detriment of all Americans.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio approved the removal of the diplomatic security detail from both Pompeo and Hook.
It was not meant as a hostile move, it was meant as a, I think, a very generous move, the offer to rebuild.
The billions of dollars that are going to be required for reconstruction are enormous.
We don't have to give foreign aid. We do so because it furthers our national interest. That's why we give foreign aid.
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…





