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## Video: Senate Confirms First Trump Cabinet Official With Marco Rubio Approved as Secretary of State

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_Published 2025-01-21. Vice President JD Vance has sworn in Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, the first of Trump’s Cabinet nominees to take the job._


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## Transcript

Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I, Marco Rubio. I, Marco Rubio. Do solemnly swear. Do solemnly swear that I will support and defend. That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the United States. Against all enemies. Against all enemies. Foreign and domestic. Foreign and domestic. That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. That I take this obligation freely. That I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. Without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion.

And that I will well and faithfully discharge. And I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. The duties of the office of which I'm about to enter. So help you God. So help me God. Congratulations, Mr. Secretary. Obviously, it's an honor to be with the Vice president, who I think is. Going to be phenomenal. Someone I knew and admired and actually relied on for policy ideas before he was even elected to the Senate and now will do an extraordinary job. And for the president, I can't think of a better voice for the world and for the president's policies.

As far as the task ahead, the you know, President Trump was elected to keep promises, and he's going to keep those promises. And his primary promise when it comes to foreign policy is that the priority of the United States Department of State will be the United States. It will be furthering the national interest of this country. And he's given us a very clear mandate. President Trump has made it very clear everything we do, and this is true in government, but especially at the Department of State, everything we do must be justified by the answer to one of three questions. Does it make us stronger?

Does it make us safer? And does it make us more prosperous? If it doesn't do one of those three things, we will not do it. And so that is the goal and that is the task. And that is the promise that he was elected to keep. And that is the promise he will keep and we will help him keep. It's a transformational moment.

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