At a press gaggle on Wednesday in India, Vice President JD Vance was asked about Democratic criticism of the State Department under Sec. Marco Rubio.
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00:00Democrats are saying that Secretary Rubio's plan to reorganize the State Department is going to put the future of American foreign policy and diplomacy in jeopardy.
00:08Since you're on a foreign trip right now, what's your response to that?
00:11Well, I'm not surprised that Democrats think that Republicans are doing something and that it's bad.
00:16That seems to be the entire narrative of the Democratic Party.
00:18They have no ideas for how to alternatively govern this country.
00:21And I guess if they think that the foreign policy of the last Democratic administration was such a success,
00:27we had war in Europe, we had war in the Middle East, we had hotspots breaking out all over the world,
00:32and we had a growing trade imbalance, which was making Americans poorer and less worse off,
00:38I think that departing from the Democrats' foreign policy is exactly what we're elected to do.
00:44And I think, Secretary Rubio, look, it's a very common-sense idea, which is some of these institutions become so sclerotic.
00:50They do things the same way again and again and again.
00:54And he's coming into a department saying, yeah, it's got a lot of good people,
00:56but it's also got some institutional bureaucracy that needs to be fixed up.
01:00I think that's a reasonable thing to do, and I think the secretary is exactly the person to do it.