Tag Archives: Marco Rubio

Rubio: No Visas For Anyone Who “Censors” Americans

Reuters reports: The United States on Wednesday announced a new visa restriction policy targeting foreign nationals who “censor” Americans. “It is unacceptable for foreign officials to issue or threaten arrest warrants on U.S. citizens or U.S. residents for social media posts on American platforms while physically present on U.S. soil,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement. He …

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Rubio Halts Interviewing Of Student Visa Applicants

Politico reports: The Trump administration is weighing requiring all foreign students applying to study in the United States to undergo social media vetting — a significant expansion of previous such efforts, according to a cable obtained by POLITICO. In preparation for such required vetting, the administration is ordering U.S. embassies and consular sections to pause scheduling new interviews for such …

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Rubio’s Favorite Pro-Trump Rapper Faces Deportation

Politico reports: In 2021, like many Cubans and Cuban Americans that summer, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was jamming to “Patria y Vida,” the Grammy-winning protest anthem that became a rallying cry for dissidents in Cuba. The hip-hop song, whose title translates to “Homeland and Life,” directly rebuked Fidel Castro’s revolutionary slogan, “Patria o Muerte” — “Homeland or Death.” That was …

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Rubio Repeatedly Dodges On Putin Being War Criminal

SEN. BILL KEATING: The person we’re negotiating with, Vladimir Putin, is he a war criminal? MARCO RUBIO: Well, I think you can look at instances that have happened there and certainly characterize them as war crimes, but our intent is to end the war. KEATING: Is he a war criminal? RUBIO: We can’t end the war without talking to Mr. …

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Vance Meets Pope Leo At Inauguration Mass [VIDEO]

The Hill reports: Vice President Vance and second lady Usha Vance met Pope Leo XIV while in Vatican City for the pontiff’s inauguration mass on Sunday. Before exiting St. Peter’s Square, the vice president and second lady greeted Pope Leo XIV, a spokesperson for the vice president said. Vance and the first American pope shook hands and appeared to briefly …

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USAID Leaves 66,000 Metric Tons Of Food Relief To Rot

Reuters reports: Food rations that could supply 3.5 million people for a month are mouldering in warehouses around the world because of U.S. aid cuts and risk becoming unusable, according to five people familiar with the situation. The food stocks have been stuck inside four U.S. government warehouses since the Trump administration’s decision in January to cut global aid programmes. …

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Vance To Return To Vatican For Pope Leo’s First Mass

Bloomberg News reports: Vice President JD Vance will attend the inaugural mass of Pope Leo XIV following the pontiff’s historic election as the first American leader of the Roman Catholic Church. Vance, the highest-ranking Catholic in the US government, heads to Italy and the Vatican for the second time in as many months after attending Holy Week services in Rome. …

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Marco Rubio To Gut National Security Council Staffing

CNN reports: A significant overhaul of the National Security Council at the White House is expected in the coming days, including a staff reduction and a reinforced top-down approach with decision-making concentrated at the highest levels, three senior Trump administration officials told CNN. Staffed by dozens of foreign policy experts from across the US government, the NSC typically serves as …

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US Demands That Stockholm End Diversity Policies

Raw Story reports: The United States is requiring businesses and government offices in Stockholm, Sweden, to comply with the Trump administration’s anti-DEI policies, according to Swedish news outlet Dagens Nyheter. “Stockholm’s urban planning office must not work for diversity, equity, and inclusion,” according to the outlet’s English translation. “The U.S. embassy demands this in a letter with a contract that …

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Voldemort: Marco Rubio Is “The Kissinger Of Our Time”

“We have a tremendous national security adviser right now. His name is Marco Rubio. I have gotten to know Marco so well, I consider him a close friend. He’s doing an extraordinary job. He will be the Kissinger of our time. I’m just proud to work alongside [Rubio] in my role as deputy chief and homeland security adviser. Let me …

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Germany Schools Rubio On AfD’s “Extremist” Label

MARCO RUBIO: “Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy—it’s tyranny in disguise. What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD—which took second in the recent election—but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes. Germany should reverse course.” GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTRY: “This is democracy. This decision is …

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State Dept Launches Purge Of Supposed Trump Critics

The Daily Beast reports: A senior State Department official requested internal records on dozens of individuals and organizations perceived as enemies of the political right as part of a probe into alleged conservative censorship. State Department Undersecretary Darren Beattie filed an 11-page request in March for all records of internal communication related to 39 individuals and 16 organizations who track …

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Rwanda Is “Open” To Accepting Deportees From US

The Washington Post reports: A recent U.S. overture, which included a list of names of potential deportees to Rwanda, was received warmly, according to a Rwandan official with knowledge of the situation. Though the administration has deported only one person — an Iraqi refugee accused of having links to terrorism groups — from the United States to Rwanda so far, …

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New Destinations For Deportees: Libya And Rwanda?

Politico reports: The Trump administration is seeking countries in addition to El Salvador that would be willing to accept people deported from the U.S., Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday. Rubio, speaking at a Cabinet meeting, told reporters that the administration intended to expand its use of foreign prisons as part of a mass deportation program that was initially …

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Marco Rubio: “Canada Would Be Better Off As A State”

“They’ll have their elections this week. They’re going to have a new leader and we’ll deal with a new leadership of Canada. There are many things we work cooperatively with on Canada on, but we actually don’t like the way they treated us when it comes to trade. “The president has made that point when he responded to the previous …

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Rubio Eliminates Office On Climate Negotiations

Politico reports: The State Department is eliminating the Office of Global Change, which oversees international climate change negotiations for the United States. Staff were told about the move verbally Thursday afternoon, according to three people who were granted anonymity to speak about the decision to avoid reprisal. The news thrust the office into chaos and raised questions among staff about …

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Rubio Unveils Reorganization Of State Department

The Washington Post reports: Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled a plan Tuesday to significantly reorganize the State Department, saying the redesign would reverse “decades of bloat and bureaucracy” within the agency. The effort targets some human rights programs and others focused on war crimes and democracy, according to internal documents shared with The Washington Post. One document purporting to …

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Judge Blocks Policy Against “X” Markers On Passports

The Associated Press reports: A federal judge on Friday partially blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of “X” marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers. U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, sided with the American Civil Liberties Union’s motion …

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Rubio: Trump Is Ready To “Move On” From Peace Talks

The Washington Post reports: Trump is ready to “move on” from peace talks between Ukraine and Russia if there is no progress “within days,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters Friday. “The president has spent 87 days at the highest level of his government repeatedly taking efforts to bring this war to an end,” said Rubio. “We are now …

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Rubio: I Shut Down The Foreign Disinformation Office Because It Was “Silencing And Censoring Americans”

Via press release from the State Department: Freedom of speech and expression have been a cornerstone of what it means to be an American citizen. For centuries, the United States served as a beacon of hope for millions of people around the world. Over the last decade though, individuals in America have been slandered, fired, charged, and even jailed for …

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