Marco Rubio has been at the center of several major developments as Secretary of State in the past few days, and they give listeners a clear view of how he is shaping United States foreign policy and even the culture of his own department.

According to Reuters and the Washington Examiner, Rubio sharply condemned Rwanda on Saturday for what he called a clear violation of the Washington Accords, the new peace deal President Donald Trump brokered between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this month. Rubio said on the social platform X that Rwandas actions in eastern Congo break the commitments made to Trump and warned that the United States will take action to ensure those promises are kept. These comments follow United States accusations at the United Nations that Rwanda is backing the M twenty three rebel group, whose latest advance threatens to derail the fresh peace agreement.

This hard line fits a broader critique emerging in foreign policy circles. An in depth analysis published by IDN In Depth News argues that Rubios neoconservative worldview is clashing with Trumps campaign promises to end endless wars. The authors contend that Rubio has pushed more confrontational policies on Iran, Ukraine, and Latin America, often favoring pressure and isolation over negotiation. They warn that his approach could drag the United States toward new conflicts, especially in Venezuela, and undermine diplomatic openings elsewhere.

Rubio has also made headlines for a seemingly small but symbolically loaded decision inside the State Department. On December ninth, he ordered all official communications to abandon the Calibri typeface and return to Times New Roman. The New York Times and Scripps News report that this reverses a Biden era change that had been promoted as improving accessibility for people with visual impairments. Rubio dismissed that rationale, calling the earlier switch a wasteful diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility move, and said that Times New Roman better reflects the formality and professionalism he expects from American diplomacy. Commentators note that this typographic reversal has quickly become a proxy battle over the ideological direction of United States institutions in Trumps second term.

At the same time, the administration is tightening its immigration and security posture. The Presidential Prayer Team reports that the State Department is overhauling vetting for H one B work visas, requiring applicants to make their social media profiles public as part of security screening. The department framed this as a necessary expansion of available information, saying that every visa adjudication is a national security decision.

Taken together, these developments show Rubio using his office to project a tougher stance abroad, assert cultural priorities at home, and align key bureaucratic decisions with a more hard edged vision of American power.

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