President-elect Donald Trump is expected to tap Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) to be his Secretary of State when he takes office in January.
The New York Times reported that multiple people familiar with Trump’s thinking said that he had appeared to settle on Rubio.
Rubio is widely known as a foreign policy hawk and is a solid pick for reestablishing American dominance on the global stage.
In particular, he is known for “taking hard lines on China and Iran,” the report said. “He initially found himself at odds with those Republicans who were more skeptical about interventions abroad, but he has also echoed Trump more recently on issues like Russia’s war against Ukraine, saying that the conflict has reached a stalemate and ‘needs to be brought to a conclusion.’”
The news comes shortly after The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump tapped Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), a Green Beret…
