Rubio named acting director of another US government agency: report

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was tapped arsenic the acting director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) conscionable days ago, is taking connected different caller relation successful President Donald Trump's caller administration. 

Rubio is present besides serving arsenic the acting manager of the U.S. Archives, ABC News reported, citing a high-level official. Fox News Digital reached retired to the State Department for comment, but they did not instantly respond.

Trump signaled past period his volition of replacing the now-former nationalist archivist Colleen Shogan, who was appointed by erstwhile President Joe Biden, during a little telephone interrogation with vigor big Hugh Hewitt. The National Archives notified the Justice Department successful aboriginal 2022 implicit classified documents Trump allegedly took with him to his Mar-a-Lago property successful Florida aft leaving office. That would aboriginal effect successful an FBI raid and Trump being indicted by erstwhile Special Counsel Jack Smith. 

The root told ABC News that Rubio has been the acting archivist since soon aft Trump was sworn successful arsenic the 47th president past month. 

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This week, Rubio is traveling connected his archetypal authoritative State Department travel to Central America, during which helium convinced the Panamanian president to extremity its Belt and Roads task deal with the Chinese government. Trump has said the United States could assertion the Panama Canal done economical oregon subject measures if indispensable aft raising concerns astir Beijing allegedly controlling the strategical waterway that was constructed by the U.S. 

The Trump medication has suspended immoderate overseas aid pending a reappraisal into however U.S. payer dollars are being spent abroad, resulting successful thousands of layoffs and ended programs. 

Addressing reporters successful Guatemala City connected Wednesday, Rubio said helium issued waivers for definite programs that assistance successful gathering biometric accusation to amended place fugitives, arsenic good arsenic bolster exertion and K-9 units to place shipments of deadly fentanyl and precursor chemicals, showing "firsthand the benignant of overseas assistance America wants to beryllium progressive in." 

"This is an illustration of overseas assistance that’s successful our nationalist interest. That’s wherefore I’ve issued a waiver for these programs, that’s wherefore these programs are coming backmost online, and they volition beryllium functioning, due to the fact that it’s a mode of showing to the American radical this is the benignant of overseas assistance that’s aligned with our overseas policy, with our nationalist interest," Rubio said.

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America’s apical diplomat said the United States wants immoderate fugitives who are "strategic objectives, meaning they assistance america fortify our partners, and they assistance america to chopped the caput disconnected the snake of a transnational radical that’s peculiarly dangerous." He said the State Department would beryllium "working precise closely" with U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department successful "prioritizing our extradition requests truthful that they align with our strategical nonsubjective with regards to who it is that we’re going after."

The State Department announced connected Wednesday that "the authorities of Panama has agreed to no longer complaint fees for U.S. authorities vessels to transit the Panama Canal," redeeming the U.S. authorities "millions of dollars a year." 

However, the Panama Canal Authority denied having made immoderate adjustments to the tolls oregon transit agreements of the canal contempt the State Department's announcement, adding that they are "ready to found a dialog with the applicable officials of the United States regarding the transit of warships." Earlier this week, Rubio voiced vexation astir U.S. Navy ships having to wage to transit done the canal contempt the U.S. being nether pact statement to support the canal if it's attacked. 

"Secretary of State Marco Rubio is specified a enactment of caller aerial & he’s proven to beryllium incredibly effectual successful implementing President Trump’s PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH imaginativeness for the world," Rep. Carlos Giménez, a Republican state of Rubio successful Congress representing southbound Florida, said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. "Panama has agreed to driblet its ‘memorandum of understanding’ with Communist China & to waive the toll for U.S. Navy ships transiting the Canal Zone. Panama indispensable proceed to enactment with the United States to evict Communist China from their state & execute a productive, semipermanent woody that prioritizes some of our countries’ shared interests."

Besides the canal, Rubio has focused his travel connected immigration, praising the Panamanians for the decreased travel of migrants done the Darien Gap and overseeing a deportation formation of Colombian nationals backmost to Colombia. 

Rubio secured 2 agreements with first, El Salvador, and past Guatemala connected Wednesday, for the countries to judge deportees from the U.S.