This Week in the Office of Senator Marco Rubio
On Friday, I urged President Trump to deploy at least 10 million rapid COVID-19 antigen tests to the state of Florida in light of the recent announcement that the federal government has procured approximately 150 million rapid tests. Read more here.
On Wednesday, I joined Fox and Friends to discuss the protests and riots in Wisconsin, the Republican National Convention, recovery for small businesses in the next COVID-19 relief package, and the upcoming NFL season. Watch the full interview here.
On Wednesday, I published an op-ed in the Washington Examiner discussing the Trump Administration’s Executive Order to restrict the Chinese-owned app TikTok and my plan to introduce legislation to create a framework of standards that must be met before a high-risk, foreign-based app is allowed to operate on American telecommunications networks and devices. Read the full article here.
On Sunday, I published an op-ed in the Nikkei Asian Review discussing how Russia, under Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian rule, seeks to shatter the current U.S.-led international system. Read the full article here.
On Tuesday, I joined Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and a group of bipartisan colleagues in sending a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging the Trump Administration to take additional actions to support the Rohingya community, to hold accountable those responsible of the brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing conducted by the Burmese military, and to refer to these crimes by their proper term: genocide. Read more here.
On Tuesday, Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) and I, Ranking Member and Chairman, respectively, of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee that oversees human rights and democracy, joined Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Todd Young (R-IN), in issuing a statement on the third anniversary of the Burmese military’s genocide against the Rohingya minority in Burma’s Rakhine State. Read more here.
In Case You Missed It...
“Marco Rubio: Trump rightly took action on TikTok, but we can't stop there” (Washington Examiner, 08/26/20)
“Marco Rubio: India should ignore Putin's offer to broker accord with China” (Nikkei Asian Review, 08/23/20)
“Rubio: Both parties should agree violence and rioting aren't acceptable” (Fox News, 08/27/20)
“U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio added in a news release, ‘Sixty years ago this week, Jacksonville witnessed the worst of humanity. As we reflect on this day in history, I am pleased that the Trump Administration is designating James Weldon Johnson Park to be a part of the African American Civil Rights Network.’” (Federal government declares Jacksonville's James Weldon Johnson Park historic site, Florida Times-Union Jacksonville, 08/27/20)
“For the past year, Rubio has been arguing that the government must identify the industrial sectors most critical to national security and economic growth, and spur investment in them, an approach he calls a ‘21st-century pro-American industrial policy.’” (To counter China, some Republicans are abandoning free-market orthodoxy, Washington Post, 08/26/20)
“Marco Rubio Calls for U.S. to Do More to Protect the Rohingya” (Florida Daily, 08/26/20)
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