Confirmed 99-0 and sworn in as the 72nd Secretary of State on January 21, 2025, the first Latino ever to hold the position, Marco Rubio pledged that every State Department decision would be governed by three questions: Does it make us stronger? Safer? More prosperous? That framework marks a return to the peace-through-strength paradigm that has consistently produced results when American leaders have had the conviction to enforce it. In a world still recovering from four years of Biden-Harris weakness and strategic retreat, Rubio’s Cuban-exile roots, legal training, and Senate-honed discipline position him to execute the most consequential foreign policy reset since the Cold War ended.
