SecState Rubio Sends an ALDAC and a Shot Across the Bows

On his first full day as SecState, Mario Rubio delivered a strong message about the priorities and missions of State under the second Trump administration. 

Here's the gist of them:

The State Department will no longer undertake any activities that facilitate or encourage mass migration … [Western Hemisphere priorities will become] stopping illegal and destabilizing migration, and negotiating the repatriation of illegal immigrants.

President Trump issued an executive order eliminating “DEIA” requirements, programs, and offices throughout the government. This order will be faithfully executed and observed in both letter and spirit.

[E]liminating our focus on political and cultural causes that are divisive at home and deeply unpopular abroad.

[S]upport and defend Americans’ rights to free speech, terminating any programs that in any way lead to censoring the American people.

[D]o away with climate policies that weaken America … [and support] a return to American energy dominance.

You can't fault the man for either directness or promptness.