Marco Rubio returned to the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday to defend the president's foreign policy and the administration's budget priorities.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday the State Department will look to charitable religious organizations like The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as it seeks to adjust foreign aid programs.

“I have to tell you directly and personally that I regret voting for you for secretary of state,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland told Rubio Tuesday during the most confrontational exchange of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio spars with Sen. Chris Van Hollen at a Tuesday budget hearing with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, of which Rubio was recently a member. SENATOR CHRIS VAN HOLLEN: And I have to tell you directly and personally that I regret voting for you for Secretary of State.

The estimate is a swift uptick from late March, when Marco Rubio said student visa cancellations stood at just 300.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, marked the 123rd anniversary of Cuban Independence Day on Tuesday.

The US secretary of state calls for Syria's transitional authorities to be supported to prevent their "potential collapse".

Marco Rubio was grilled in the Senate about Trump’s foreign policy. Trump wants to use foreign aid funds to return migrants to conflict areas. Who? Ukrainians, Haitians and others who fled to the U.S. amid extreme, ongoing violence in their home nations. The plan would spend up to $250 million of foreign aid funds.