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Marco Rubio: “State Department's not that big. The majority of our…”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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We still have to be able to strategically spend our money. And the State Department, you know, when I took over, a lot of people like, oh, that's a massive. State Department's not that big. The majority of our employees are local hires overseas. We have, you know, foreign service officers, careers, civil servants. But compared to some of these other agencies that are out there, we're not that large. And yet we have a global footprint. (06:00–06:06)

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Asserts that the State Department is not large and most employees are local hires overseas.

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