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Secretary Of State Marco Rubio Holds Press Briefing After Assuming Control Of USAID
Forbes ^ | 2/4/2025 | Forbes

Posted on 02/05/2025 7:08:36 PM PST by Republican Wildcat

Sec. Marco Rubio held a press briefing on Tuesday in Costa Rica.

(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...


TOPICS: AMERICA - The Right Way!!; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: marcorubio; press; rubio; secofstate; usaid
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1 posted on 02/05/2025 7:08:36 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

We Have Assumed Control!

We Have Assumed Control!

We Have Assumed Control!


2 posted on 02/05/2025 7:10:00 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Republican Wildcat

He’ll have to prove to me he has the stones to do what needs be done. Somehow, he seems...very nervous.


3 posted on 02/05/2025 7:10:25 PM PST by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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To: dfwgator

Just listened to that!


4 posted on 02/05/2025 7:12:55 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Dogbert41

He is just learning what a deep swamp the State Department is—full of leftist creeps all over the world.


5 posted on 02/05/2025 7:14:16 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: Larry Lucido

It occured to me that there are a lot of parallels between 2112 and what’s happening now.


6 posted on 02/05/2025 7:14:17 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Can Rubio hold the line? I have doubts. Does USAID effectively end after Friday?


7 posted on 02/05/2025 7:17:00 PM PST by iamgalt
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To: Republican Wildcat

This is a BIG test for Bubble Boy. The old Marco would be furious about this. The new Marco has to support Trump and DOGE. But he must be conflicted. He is by far the biggest RINO in the Admin.


8 posted on 02/05/2025 7:22:24 PM PST by montag813
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To: iamgalt

Rubio will have to be watched like a hawk.

He can be fired if he is not up to the task.


9 posted on 02/05/2025 7:23:54 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: dfwgator

Attention all planets


10 posted on 02/05/2025 7:24:25 PM PST by CaptainPhilFan (Donald J Trump: OF the People FOR the People WITH the People)
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To: dfwgator

Yep. Almost prophetic.


11 posted on 02/05/2025 7:24:41 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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To: montag813

Marco Rubio has been critical of USAID and its lack of transparency long before now, so what you are saying is simply not correct. He has even brought that up in these discussions. There is nothing in his record or his known philosophy that would indicate he would possibly be “conflicted” over this.


12 posted on 02/05/2025 7:27:56 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: dfwgator; Larry Lucido

“Look around this world we made
Equality
Our stock in trade
Come and join the Brotherhood
Of man
Oh what a nice contented world!
Let the banners
Be unfurled!
Hold the Red Star proudly
High in hand!”

Sound like anyone we know??


13 posted on 02/05/2025 7:42:57 PM PST by Reddy (BO stinks)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Rubio was director of IRI. He has been in on it.

I am back to giving him the side eye.


14 posted on 02/05/2025 7:49:51 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

Stefanik is director of Ned which musk thinks is evil.

He is calling for her to resign from Ned.


15 posted on 02/05/2025 7:52:02 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: Republican Wildcat
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/politics/video/kfile-marco-rubio-usaid-foreign-aid-praise-ebof-digvid

CNN's Andrew Kaczynski reports Secretary of State Marco Rubio was for years a staunch supporter of US Agency for International Development's mission while in the US Senate, reversing his views only recently as President Donald Trump and his allies have moved to dismantle the agency.

16 posted on 02/05/2025 7:59:48 PM PST by montag813
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To: Reddy; dfwgator

Those priests were grouchy but they sure knew how to jam.


17 posted on 02/05/2025 8:00:05 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Reddy

Neil’s masterpiece lyrically, though he obviously took the idea from Anthem. His lyrics certainly caught the spirit of the novel beautifully.


18 posted on 02/05/2025 8:04:24 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin ( )
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin
Neil’s masterpiece lyrically, though he obviously took the idea from Anthem. His lyrics certainly caught the spirit of the novel beautifully.

OK, I am a Peart (RIP) and Rush fan. Love that album. Also read Anthem. Never put the 2 together. How did I miss that?

19 posted on 02/05/2025 8:28:26 PM PST by Damifino (The true measure of a man is found in what he would do if he knew no one would ever find out.)
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To: Damifino
"Never put the 2 together. How did I miss that?"

Most of us missed the Rand references when we were young (or, at least, every Rush fan I knew). But, we got the message because we all were on the same page during the Cold War. We understood that communism was a threat, and we worried about creeping socialism right on our border in Canada.

20 posted on 02/05/2025 11:27:18 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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