‘We deported human trafficker, you had Margaritas’: Rubio, Van Hollen get into fiery Senate clash

Economic Times Youtube ^ | 5/20/2025 | Economic Times

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Sen. Chris Van Hollen clashed during a heated Senate hearing on the 2026 State Department budget. Van Hollen said he regretted confirming Rubio, prompting a sharp retort from Rubio:

“Your regret confirms I’m doing a good job.” The fiery exchange highlighted deep divisions over U.S. foreign policy and accountability in the State Department.

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Rubio: “We deported gang members, gang members including the one that you had a margarita with. And that guy is a human trafficker. And that guy is a gangbanger, and the evidence is going to be clear in the days to come you’re going to see who you went to the funeral.”

[dfwgator]

Damn, that’s savage. Good for Marco.

[Texas Eagle]

Whoa! This from Marco? You go, bruh!

[marcusmaximus]

Marco has been kicking ass today at the hearing.

[9YearLurker]

“you’re going to see who you went to the funeral”

Huh?

[lee martell]

Senator Chris V. will never live that scene down. Maybe he’s right, and the Margaritas were placed on the table after their meeting had begun, but the image is still quite vivid.

Some are upset at the Senator for putting himself in such a foolish, compromising position in the first place.
Sticking his nose where it did not belong, and all because of
petty Trump Resistance.

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Rubio: “We deported gang members, gang members including the one that you had a margarita with. And that guy is a human trafficker. And that guy is a gangbanger, and the evidence is going to be clear in the days to come you’re going to see who you went to the funeral.”

[NorthMountain]

Chris Van Hollen is a piece of unAmerican filth ...

And a lot of people on this forum judged Marco Rubio very wrongly. You know who you are ...

[ronniesgal]

good for him!!! I do not believe for 1 second that they did NOT have drinks with the criminals.

[struggle]

Marco might be frustrated with Trump sometimes, but he’s super pissed at the Dems. Nice he grew a pair.

[Texas Eagle]

I confess I was one of those people who judged Rubio incorrectly. I hope he keeps proving me wrong.

[HombreSecreto]

All these years and it took Trump the outsider to give the GOP some backbone.

Down with the GOPe!

[Tell It Right]

Agreed. I’m pleasantly surprised with Rubio!

[Texas Eagle]

Van Hollen met with the wife beater sitting at a tiny table in a ritzy restaurant. Talk was small when they talked at all. They both knew what they wanted. They were staring at their coffee cup. Trying to keep their courage up by applying booze.

You know the rest of the story.

[Vaduz]

Cheers for Marco Rubio he slapped deep pockets Chris Van Hollen around for the punk Marxists he is Van Hollen can’t even follow the rules of the meeting a typical democrat believing they own D.C..

Everyone of them are maggot infested losers with no ideas except for the desire for total control they are the problem we have in America chaos.

[packrat35]

Rubio has been my most pleasant surprise. I literally had no hope for him and expected a lukewarm middle of the road performance to get him ready for 2028.

Dude has been fire. Not backing down and always deferring to President Trump and saying that he is there to do the President’s bidding.

[NorthMountain]

Your post exhibits manly virtue.

[HKMk23]

I think there’s a “for” or a “with” that’s supposed to be at the end of that, but got clipped.

That’s my guess, anyway.

[HYPOCRACY]

I thought he would be good and an excellent spokesperson for the President’s foreign policy. I admit I didn’t think he’d be this good.