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With Waltz out, Rubio takes on two key roles after shifting to embrace Trump's ideals
The Statesman Bhubaneswar
|May 03, 2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been thrown into two top national security jobs at once as President Donald Trump presses forward with his top-to-bottom revamp of US foreign policy, upending not only longstanding policies that the former Florida senator once supported but also the configuration of the executive branch.
Trump's appointment of Rubio to temporarily replace Mike Waltz as national security adviser is the first major leadership shake-up of the nascent administration, but Waltz's removal had been rumored for weeks — ever since he created a Signal group chat and accidentally added a journalist to the conversation where top national security officials shared sensitive military plans.
This story is from the May 03, 2025 edition of The Statesman Bhubaneswar.
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