Secretary of State Marco Rubio is testifying in entrance of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this morning and a House Appropriations panel later this afternoon.
He is there to speak about his division’s price range request, however the hearings come throughout a tense second within the United States’ war with Iran.
It additionally comes as Rubio has lately expressed pessimism {that a} diplomatic answer may very well be reached with Cuba. The Trump administration secured criminal charges against former Cuban President Raúl Castro, mounting stress on an already tense relationship between the 2 Cold War foes. The administration additionally imposed new sanctions on the Cuban authorities.
Also in the previous few weeks, Rubio outlined the Trump administration’s response to Ebola. “We cannot and will not allow any cases of Ebola to enter the United States,” he stated at a current Cabinet assembly.
Rubio additionally serves concurrently as nationwide safety adviser.