Senator Clashes With Rubio in Fiery Exchange
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the Trump administration's reorganization of what he calls the U.S. "foreign aid industrial complex" during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Tuesday.
There was shouting and gavel banging as Marco Rubio and his former Senate Democratic colleagues clashed over U.S. foreign aid.
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.
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“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.
The estimate is up from late March, when the Secretary of State said student visa cancellations stood at just 300.
U.S. District Judge William Sessions during a hearing in Burlington, Vermont, ordered the immediate release of Rumeysa Ozturk, who is at the center of one of the highest-profile cases to emerge from Trump's campaign to deport pro-Palestinian activists on American campuses.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday insisted that the Trump administration was not withdrawing from the world, as he batted away criticism of its cuts to foreign aid and diplomatic budgets from his former colleagues in Congress,
The US secretary of state calls for Syria's transitional authorities to be supported to prevent their "potential collapse".
Va., clashed over the U.S. resettlement of South African refugees, with Rubio accusing Kaine of objecting to the refugees’ skin color.