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Vice President JD Vance swore in Marco Rubio as secretary of state Tuesday, the first of Trump’s Cabinet nominees to take the job.
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Rubio said Trump’s primary priority will be furthering the United States’ interests and that anything the government and State Department do must make the country stronger, safer or more prosperous.
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“If it doesn’t do one of those three things, we will not do it,” Rubio said.
Vance, who served as a senator alongside Rubio, called him a “bipartisan solutions seeker.”
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