Marco Rubio Destroys Argument That State Department Should Check The President

Secretary of State Marco Rubio laid waste to the notion that the State Department existed as a failsafe that could potentially serve as a check on the White House: “That’s ridiculous. That’s stupid, really.”

Rubio gave reporters a brief civics lesson on Friday, explaining that it was his job to serve at the will of the President of the United States and to implement the foreign policy vision of the president and his administration, not undermine the president if they were ever at odds over any specific issue.

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“The Constitution does not say you elect the President and then you put in place a State Department to undermine the President if the person who’s the Secretary of State doesn’t agree with him. That’s ridiculous.… pic.twitter.com/Z1slwgvNW0

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“The State Department is not its own government,” Rubio began, adding that the Secretary of State could not therefore act unilaterally to implement his own policies in place of those laid out by the president.

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“At the end of the day, the person the people of the United States elected to be the President of the United States and the Commander-in-Chief is Donald J. Trump. That’s who they elected. And my job, and the job of the people in our administration, is to implement the President’s foreign policy,” he explained, adding that his role was often to advise the president on how to best implement his policies, but it was never to supplant them with his own. “Why people think that somehow foreign policy can be divorced from our republic? That’s not the way our Constitution works.”

Rubio continued the civics tutorial, adding, “The Constitution does not say you elect the President and then you put in place a State Department to undermine the President if the person who’s the Secretary of State doesn’t agree with him. That’s ridiculous. That’s stupid, really. I don’t know why anybody would think that. So that’s the job I have, and that’s the job I’m proud to do.”