Vice President JD Vance conducting the swearing-in ceremony for Marco Rubio as the 72nd secretary of state on Tuesday, who became the first of President Donald Trump’s official Cabinet members.
On Monday, the Senate voted 99-0 to confirm Rubio, a former Republican senator from Florida, to take the position previously held by former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who served in President Joe Biden’s administration for his entire term.
Rubio had represented Florida in the U.S. Senate since 2011 and stepped down on Monday as Trump was inaugurated as president. He had served as the acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2020 and 2021 as well as chairman of the Joint China Commission between 2017 and 2019….