Rubio takes on another Trump administrator role, acting director of U.S. Archives: Report

Secretary of State Marco Rubio was appointed acting director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) a few days ago, and he played another new role in President Donald Trump’s new administration.

Rubio is now also acting director of the U.S. Archives and cited a senior official, according to ABC News. Fox News Digital commented to the State Department, but they did not respond immediately.

Trump said last month that he intends to replace Colleen Shogan, the current-formed national archivist now appointed by former President Joe Biden, who was on the radio host Hugh Hewitt’s Appointed in a short telephone interview. The National Archives notified the Justice Department in early 2022 that Trump allegedly brought to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after leaving the office. Later, this would lead to a raid by the FBI and Trump’s indictment by former special counsel Jack Smith.

Rubio has been an acting archivist shortly after Trump was sworn in as the 47th president last month, sources told ABC News.

In a letter to Rubio, the U.S. Agency for International Development said that Republicans said “displayed a pattern of obstructionism”

Rubio traveled on his first official State Department trip to Central America this week, during which he convinced the Panamanian president to end his belt and road project with the Chinese government. Trump has said the U.S. could claim through economic or military measures that the Panama Canal, amid concerns about Beijing, allegedly allegedly controls strategic waterways built by the U.S.

The Trump administration has suspended some foreign aid to be reviewed how to spend U.S. taxpayers’ money abroad, resulting in thousands of layoffs and termination plans.

Speaking to reporters in the city of Guatemala on Wednesday, Rubio said he issued waivers for certain programs to help collect biometric information to better identify fugitives and strengthen technology and K-9 units to identify deadly fentanyl and precursor chemicals for transport of foreign aid in the United States. ”

“This is an example of foreign aid that is in our national interest. That’s why I’ve released these program exemptions, which is why these programs are back online and they will be running because it’s a way to show the United States people are It is a foreign aid that is consistent with our foreign policy and is consistent with our national interests,” Rubio said.

Rubio welcomed Guatemala Foreign Minister Carlos Ramiro Martinez at La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City on February 4, 2025. (Johan Ordonez/AFP via Getty Images)

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Top U.S. diplomats say the U.S. hopes some fugitives are “strategic goals, which means they can help us strengthen our partners and help us stand out from the snakes of a particularly dangerous transnational group.” He said the State Department will be with the U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department “prioritize our extradition requests to align them with our strategic goals to align with those we are pursuing.”

The State Department announced Wednesday: “The Panama administration has agreed not to charge fees for transporting the Panama Canal from U.S. government ships, which is “save millions of dollars a year for the U.S. government.”

But despite the State Department announcement, the Panama Canal Authority denied any adjustments to the canal’s toll or transportation agreement, adding that they were ready to establish a dialogue with relevant U.S. officials on warship transit. “Earlier this week, Rubio was frustrated that U.S. Navy ships had to pay for payments through the canal, despite the U.S. breach of the treaty agreement in order to defend the canal.

On February 5, 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Guatemala President Bernardo Arevalo were held at the Cultural Palace in Guatemala City. (Johan Ordonez/AFP via Getty Images)

“Secretary of State Marco Rubio is a fresh air, and it turns out that he has achieved peace for President Trump through his vision of the power of the world,” said Ally, a Republican Party representing Rubio in South Florida. Carlos Giménez in a statement to Fox News Digital. “Panama has agreed to abandon its ‘memorandum of understanding’ with communist China and to abandon the losses of U.S. naval vessels in transit canal areas. Panama must continue to work with the United States to expel communism , and to achieve fruitful, fruitful, long-term transactions prioritize the common interests of our country.”

In addition to the canal, Rubio focused his journey on immigrants, praising the Panamanians for reducing immigrant movement through the Darien gap and supervising the flight of deportation of Colombian nationals to return to Colombia.

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