After being unanimously confirmed by the Senate on Monday evening, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was formally sworn in by Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday morning.
Rubio joined ABC’s “Good Morning America” forward of the ceremony, the place he mentioned Trump’s pardons for Jan. 6 rioters, TikTok and the Russia-Ukraine warfare.
Rubio sidestepped straight weighing on the pardons, saying his “focus must be 100% on how I work together with our counterparts, our adversaries, our potential enemies around the globe to maintain this nation secure, to make it affluent.”
Marco Rubio is sworn in as Secretary of State by U.S. Vice President JD Vance on the Eisenhower Govt Workplace Constructing in Washington, Jan. 21, 2025.
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When requested about Trump’s marketing campaign pledge to finish the battle between Russia and Ukraine on Day 1, Rubio contended the matter is extra complicated and that negotiations wouldn’t be performed out in public.
“Look this can be a complicated, tragic battle, one which was began by Vladimir Putin that’s inflicted an amazing quantity of injury on Ukraine and likewise on Russia, I might argue, but in addition on the steadiness of Europe,” Rubio stated. “So the one strategy to remedy this stuff, we received to get again to pragmatism, however we additionally get again to seriousness right here, and that’s the onerous work of diplomacy. The U.S. has a job to play right here. We’ve been supportive of Ukraine, however this battle has to finish.”
Secretary Marco Rubio talks Trump’s worldwide agenda
The newly-confirmed Secretary of State talks about changing into the primary Latino to occupy the job, plans for the TikTok ban and President Donald Trump’s pardon of Jan. 6 defendants.
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