WATCH LIVE: Marco Rubio heads back to Capitol Hill for second day
Secretary of State Marco Rubio returns to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a second day of back-to-back testimony before House and Senate committees. He will first appear before the House Foreign Affairs Committee at 10 a.m. to discuss the State Department’s fiscal 2027 budget, which seeks 30% less discretionary spending than the previous year. Later, at 3 p.m., he is scheduled to testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee’s State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs subcommittee.Rubio is expected to face questions again about the war in Iran, where a fragile ceasefire appears to have been disrupted by U.S. and Iranian “self-defense” strikes.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is heading back to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for his second day of back-to-back testimonies before House and Senate committees.
Rubio will testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee at 10 a.m. about the State Department’s budget for fiscal 2027, which requested 30% less discretionary spending funds than last year.
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The State Department head will then testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Subcommittee at 3 p.m., following his questioning in the House.
He is likely to again field questions about the war in Iran, which rests on a fragile ceasefire that was seemingly interrupted Tuesday evening by U.S. and Iranian forces trading “self-defense” strikes.
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