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Marco Rubio: “We're not getting rid of, for example, a group of people…”

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

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Interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio on State Department Reorganization and U.S. Foreign Policy

Published | Video Starts at 03:29

These two have to be brought together. And so we get rid of those bureaus that are what they call functional bureaus, and instead we move that function. We're not getting rid of, for example, a group of people that care about human rights, but we're putting those people in the regions and in the embassies. so that all of our foreign policy is being balanced within those bureaus. So say it's Western hemisphere, it's being balanced within the Western Hemisphere, and then ultimately empowering our embassies to pursue mature foreign policy that takes all of these factors into account. (03:29–03:38)

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Asserts that personnel focused on human rights will be reassigned to regional and embassy positions.

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