Secretary of State Marco Rubio held an end-of-the-year press briefing on Dec. 19, highlighting the Trump administration’s foreign policy agenda and fielding reporters’ questions about issues including Venezuela, the Russia-Ukraine war, and the cease-fire between Israel and Gaza.
The briefing at the State Department began with Rubio stating why he believes President Donald Trump was elected—from a foreign policy point-of-view.
“One of the reasons why President Trump was elected is sort of an understanding among the American people that our foreign policy was in need of a complete recalibration because the world has dramatically changed,” he said.
“Many of the institutions, policies, assumptions that our foreign policy was operating under were built upon a world that no longer existed, and it required us to re-examine that.”…