Marco Rubio told State Department employees that changes under President Trump “are not meant to be destructive, they’re not meant to be punitive.”

The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to become the next secretary of state. The vote took place hours after President Donald Trump’s inauguration. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Monday advanced Rubio’s nomination before senators approved it by a 99-0 vote margin.

The Senate voted unanimously to confirm Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) as secretary of state on Monday, delivering President Donald Trump the first member of his Cabinet just hours after he was sworn in for a second term.

The new Secretary of State Marco Rubio is sworn in, the first Latino in the post, and the cabinet member with one of the most daunting in entries.

Rubio, who would succeed Antony Blinken, has accused China of cheating its way to superpower status, calling it a 'dangerous' adversary A Senate committee on Monday fast-tracked Marco Rubio's nomination to be US secretary of state,

The Senate has confirmed Marco Rubio as secretary of state, giving President Donald Trump the first member of his Cabinet.

Rubio, a descendant of Cuban immigrants, was born in Miami, Florida, and has represented his state as a senator since 2011. He was a presidential candidate in 2016 before being defeated by President Donald Trump in the Florida primary, after which he suspended his campaign and subsequently endorsed Trump.

The Senate unanimously confirmed Marco Rubio as secretary of state on Inauguration Day, making him the first member of President Trump’s new Cabinet. Rubio, a Republican senator from Florida and former Trump rival, garnered bipartisan support for his expertise in foreign policy and focus on China.

Writing on Truth Social on Oct. 24, President-elect Donald Trump condemned Vice President Kamala Harris for what happened to Armenians on her watch. “Kamala Harris did NOTHING as 120,000 Armenian Christians were horrifically persecuted and forcibly displaced in Artsakh,” he declared.

The Senate quickly confirmed Marco Rubio as secretary of state Monday, voting unanimously to give President Donald Trump the first member of his new Cabinet on Inauguration Day. Rubio, the Republican senator from Florida,

President Trump has no love for the State Department — or, as he calls it, the “Deep State Department.” In his mind it is insular, hidebound, and full of lazy careerists and fuzzy-headed one-worlders. He is not inclined to listen to foreign service officers. It follows that he won’t pay too much attention to advice from his secretary of state.