Secretary of State Marco Rubio, fresh off his unanimous confirmation in the Senate, sent a cable to every U.S. diplomatic and consular post on Tuesday outlining his America First and “common sense” approach to diplomacy. The former U.S. senator from Florida is President Trump’s first cabinet member to be approved by the Senate. Now at …
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio, fresh off his unanimous confirmation in the Senate, sent a cable to every U.S. diplomatic and consular post on Tuesday outlining his America First and “common sense” approach to diplomacy.
The former U.S. senator from Florida is President Trump’s first cabinet member to be approved by the Senate. Now at the head of Trump’s diplomatic corps, Rubio is upending what he sees as a dangerously mistaken approach to foreign policy that has dominated U.S. diplomacy for close to three decades, according to Real Clear Politics, which obtained first a copy of Rubio’s memo.