Secretary of State Marco Rubio laid waste to the notion that the State Department existed as a failsafe that could potentially serve as a check on the White House: “That’s ridiculous. That’s stupid, really.”

Rubio gave reporters a brief civics lesson on Friday, explaining that it was his job to serve at the will of the President of the United States and to implement the foreign policy vision of the president and his administration, not undermine the president if they were ever at odds over any specific issue.

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“The Constitution does not say you elect the President and then you put in place a State Department to undermine the President if the person who’s the Secretary of State doesn’t agree with him. That’s ridiculous.… pic.twitter.com/Z1slwgvNW0

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 19, 2025

“The State Department is not its own government,” Rubio began, adding that the Secretary of State could not therefore act unilaterally to implement his own policies in place of those laid out by the president.

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“At the end of the day, the person the people of the United States elected to be the President of the United States and the Commander-in-Chief is Donald J. Trump. That’s who they elected. And my job, and the job of the people in our administration, is to implement the President’s foreign policy,” he explained, adding that his role was often to advise the president on how to best implement his policies, but it was never to supplant them with his own. “Why people think that somehow foreign policy can be divorced from our republic? That’s not the way our Constitution works.”

Rubio continued the civics tutorial, adding, “The Constitution does not say you elect the President and then you put in place a State Department to undermine the President if the person who’s the Secretary of State doesn’t agree with him. That’s ridiculous. That’s stupid, really. I don’t know why anybody would think that. So that’s the job I have, and that’s the job I’m proud to do.”

The Department of Homeland Security is recruiting new officers and agents to help carry out its mass deportation campaign at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest this week.

With an influx of $165 billion from Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, DHS has focused on hiring more officers and agents to ramp up arrests and deportations. DHS arrived at the conference with a BearCat armored vehicle and signage reading “Decide America’s future, rise to your potential & defend the homeland.”

“We’re looking for American patriots willing to defend the homeland, and honor the vision of America Charlie Kirk fought for,” DHS wrote on X.

DHS is at @TPUSA Amfest! We’re looking for American patriots willing to defend the homeland, and honor the vision of America Charlie Kirk fought for.

Swing by our booth to learn more! pic.twitter.com/EQDwbP1KTJ

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) December 19, 2025

The Trump administration’s goal is to hire 3,000 new Customs officers, 3,000 new Border Patrol agents, and 10,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in order to accomplish its goal of carrying out one million deportations each year.

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The administration is currently short of that goal, with more than 605,000 deportations since Inauguration Day.

The agency is offering up to $50,000 in sign-on bonuses to entice new recruits. DHS has also asked former law enforcement officers to return to the job.

ICE has already met its goal after receiving 220,000 applications, the agency said Thursday.

“Our Defend the Homeland recruitment campaign is the MOST SUCCESSFUL federal law enforcement recruitment campaign in American history,” ICE recently said on X.

AmericaFest is expected to have roughly 30,000 attendees, making it the largest turnout yet.