{"id":4930,"date":"2025-01-15T16:08:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T16:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rubio-top-priority-of-state-department-will-be-us-interests\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T16:08:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T16:08:56","slug":"rubio-top-priority-of-state-department-will-be-us-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rubio-top-priority-of-state-department-will-be-us-interests\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio: \u2018Top priority\u2019 of State Department will be US interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s pick to be secretary of State, on Wednesday vowed that the \u201ctop priority\u201d of U.S. foreign policy \u201cwill be the United States\u201d as he outlined his life story and his goals if confirmed to be America\u2019s top diplomat.<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks before his colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rubio outlined that under Trump and him, the State Department will put forward policies that make America \u201cmore prosperous\u201d and avoid past mistakes where \u201cAmerica far too often continued to prioritize the \u201cglobal order\u201d above our core national interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rubio, who remains in the Senate until he is confirmed, received a chummy and friendly response from the foreign policy panel. Both the top Republican, Chair Jim Risch of Idaho, and top Democrat, Ranking Member Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, agreed that Rubio is qualified to hold the job and offered praise and positive stories of their working experiences with him. Risch also cracked jokes at the outset of the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Rubio also faced early hecklers. Anti-war protestors decried him as a supporter of \u201cforever wars.\u201d Left-wing protesters associated with the activist group Code Pink yelled \u201ceducation is a human right\u201d and castigated him for supporting sanctions on the governments of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a Spanish-language protest accusing him of \u201ckilling the children of Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba,\u201d Rubio quipped \u201cI get bilingual protests.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s pick to be secretary of State, on Wednesday vowed that the \u201ctop priority\u201d of U.S. foreign policy \u201cwill be the United States\u201d as he outlined his life story and his goals if confirmed to be America\u2019s top diplomat. In his remarks before his colleagues on the Senate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}