In a dramatic confrontation, Secretary of State Marco Rubio blasted Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) about the Trump administration’s decision to defund the controversial USAID program. During the interaction, Van Hollen disrespectfully tried to interrupt Rubio’s explanation before he was shut down.
For context, Senator Chris Van Hollen became infamous after he tried to use the arrest of Kilmer Abrego Garcia, a suspected MS-13 gang member, to return to his home country of El Salvador. In response to his deportation, Van Hollen decided to take a trip to the Central American nation to meet with the suspected human trafficker.
Starting his epic diatribe, the Secretary of State began, “First of all, I’m actually very proud of the work we’ve done with USA ID, for example. I don’t regret cutting $10 million for male circumcisions in Mozambique. I don’t know how that makes us stronger and more prosperous as a nation.”
Providing more concrete examples, he stated, “I can go on. I mean, there’s other things here. We spent $227,000 on a big cats YouTube channel from the USA ID. We spent $14 million for social cohesion in Mali, whatever the hell that means. So I can go on and on. I got the list here, and there’s more than bring the whole list.”
Firing back at the disrespectful Sen. Van Hollen, he added, “Here’s another point. Okay, there is a division in our government between the federal branch and the judicial branch. No judge and the judicial branch cannot tell me or the president how to conduct foreign policy. No judge can tell me how I have to outreach to a foreign partner, what I need to say to them. And if I do reach that foreign partner and talk to them, I am under no obligation to share that with judiciary branch.”
Continuing his condemnation, Rubio blasted activist judges sat\ying, “Just like a judge cannot order me to negotiate with a foreign minister of Russia, they cannot order me to negotiate with a foreign minister or the president of El Salvador, and if I did negotiate with them, which we have responded to them, and we’ve told them we’ve had communications with the president of El Salvador, I am under no obligation under our division. Of powers in this country and to share with the judicial branch how I conducted diplomacy of the United States.”
Battering the woke Democrat, Rubio explained, “It would actually be counterproductive if I started sharing with courts, or frankly, with the media, my conversations with foreign leaders and all of their details. No foreign leader would talk to me again, and we would break trust with them. So I have complied with every court order.”
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Attacking the DNC narrative, the Secretary of Defence said, “What I won’t comply with is in order to disclose what I’m saying and what we’re talking about with the foreign leaders, and then won’t talk to me. Diplomacy doesn’t work that way. About the student visas, let me say this. I don’t deport anybody, and I don’t snatch anybody. The State Department does not have offices in the street, snatching everybody.”
Watch Rubio explode on the woke senator and call him out here:
Concluding his epic rebuke after van Hollen rambled about ICE going after students, Rubio stated, “What I do is revoke visas. And it’s very simple, a visa is a it’s not a right. It is a privilege. People apply for student visas to come into the United States and study, and if you tell me that you’re coming to the United States to leave campus crusades, to take over libraries and burn down try to burn down buildings and acts of violence, you’re not gonna get that visa.”
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