{"id":220783,"date":"2025-01-21T20:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T20:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/rubio-oversees-halt-to-foreign-aid-and-meets-with-asian-diplomats-on-day-1\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T20:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T20:04:14","slug":"rubio-oversees-halt-to-foreign-aid-and-meets-with-asian-diplomats-on-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/rubio-oversees-halt-to-foreign-aid-and-meets-with-asian-diplomats-on-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio Oversees Halt to Foreign Aid and Meets With Asian Diplomats on Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio walked into the State Department on Tuesday for the first time in his new job<\/a>, taking the reins of the main agency carrying out U.S. foreign policy at a time of violent global crises and as other nations begin engaging with President Trump.<\/p>\n

After greeting employees at a ceremonial gathering, Mr. Rubio went into a meeting with his counterparts from India, Japan and Australia to discuss issues in the Indo-Pacific region, an area that, in his eyes, China seeks to dominate.<\/p>\n

Mr. Rubio was sworn in as secretary of state at 9:30 on a frigid Tuesday morning by Vice President JD Vance. He arrived at the flag-festooned entrance hall of the State Department at 1 p.m. to applause, as hundreds of employees strained to get a glimpse of him and his wife, Jeanette Rubio, and their four children. Lisa Kenna, a career diplomat who is serving as Mr. Rubio\u2019s executive secretary, as she did for Mike Pompeo in the first Trump administration, introduced the new secretary.<\/p>\n

Mr. Rubio thanked the many diplomats working overseas, then laid out Mr. Trump\u2019s foreign policy goal: \u201cThat mission is to ensure that our foreign policy is centered on one thing, and that is the advancement of our national interests,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n