This Week in the Office of Senator Marco Rubio
On Thursday, as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, I worked with Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN) to release the Keeping Workers Paid and Employed Act, a $300 billion small business emergency economic relief plan that will help small businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic make payroll and cover expenses. Read more here.
On Thursday, I spoke on the Senate floor regarding the urgency to provide economic relief to American workers during the coronavirus pandemic. Watch the full speech here.
On Wednesday, Senator Susan Collins and I held a press conference to discuss the Keep Workers Paid and Employed Act. Watch the full press conference here.
On Wednesday, I joined CNBC’s Squawk Box to further explain my plan to support small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. Watch the full interview here.
On Wednesday, I joined Fox News’s The Story with Martha McCallum to discuss the impact of the coronavirus on small businesses, Florida’s response to the pandemic. and the industrial and national security issues prompted by the United States’s current relationship with China. Watch the full interview here.
On Monday, I published an op-ed in Breitbart News discussing the Chinese Communist Party’s dishonest attempts to evade blame for the origins of the coronavirus, demonstrating its inability to act as a responsible global power. Read the full article here.
On Tuesday, I joined Fox News’s Tucker Carlson Tonight to discuss the need to rebuild the United States’s domestic medical manufacturing capabilities. Watch the full interview here.
On Sunday, as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, I sent a letter to Jovita Carranza, Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), urging the agency to issue an Economic Injury Disaster Loan declaration for the State of Florida to help businesses that are suffering from economic injury due to the coronavirus receive SBA EIDL loans. Read more here.
On Monday, I joined Senators Jim Risch (R-ID), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Barrasso (R-WY), and Cory Gardner (R-CO) in issuing a joint statement in response to recent disinformation campaign by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regarding the origins of COVID-19, a virus that originated in Wuhan, China. Read more here.
On Tuesday, I joined Fox & Friends to discuss the importance of putting politics aside as the United States acts quickly to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Watch the video here.
On Tuesday, I issued the following statement after President Donald Trump nominated U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS) Carlos Trujillo to serve as the next Assistant Secretary for the Western Hemisphere, as well as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Foundation. Read more here.
Last Friday, I was joined by Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) in sending a letter to President Trump calling on the Administration to take all available and appropriate action to protect U.S. service members from International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecution following the recent misguided decision to authorize an investigation into U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. Read more here.
In Case You Missed It...
“Marco Rubio: China’s Shameless Coronavirus Pandemic Propaganda Campaign” (Breitbart, 03/16/2020)
“Rubio seeks $300B to have government pick small business payroll tab for six weeks” (Washington Examiner, 03/18/2020)
“Sen. Rubio: 'We Have to Keep People Employed'” (CNS News, 03/19/2020)
“Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and others in Congress are working to create loans for small businesses” (Action News Jax, 03/18/2020)
“Sen. Marco Rubio wants to offer small businesses money so they can keep paying their employees” (CNBC, 03/18/2020)
“Rubio: Coronavirus crisis shows US 'industrial capacity is a critical component of our national security'” (Fox News, 03/18/2020)
“Marco Rubio Pushes Back at CCP’s Claims that COVID-19 Did Not Originate in China” (Florida Daily, 03/17/2020)
“Rubio: If Airlines Get Shut Down Over Coronavirus ‘We’re Going to Have a Very Different Country’” (Breitbart, 03/17/2020)
“As Sens. Marco Rubio and Tom Cotton have pointed out, America and the world have a prudential responsibility to reconsider their dependence on China” (Beijing Fears COVID-19 Is Turning Point for China, Globalization, RealClearPolitics, 03/18/2020)
Legislation Introduced
- I introduced the Strengthening America’s Supply Chain and National Security Act, bipartisan, bicameral legislation that builds off the plan I released in February to combat America’s supply chain risk and dependence on China for pharmaceuticals. Read more here.
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