Secretary of State Marco Rubio was forced to repeatedly demand his basic right to speak during Tuesday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing after Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) delivered a partisan attack on the Trump administration’s State Department budget request and then refused to let him respond.
The ugly scene unfolded as Rubio testified on the administration’s FY2027 budget proposal.
It all started when Duckworth launched into a bitter, pre-scripted tirade, baselessly claiming that the State Department’s budget request would “undermine” the agency. Hoping to escape any accountability for her words, Duckworth quickly squeaked, “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I yield back,” explicitly trying to muzzle Secretary Rubio from defending the administration.
But Rubio wasn’t having any of it.
“I didn’t get to answer any of that,” Rubio fired back, immediately calling out the underhanded tactic.
A visibly flustered Duckworth lamely tried to defend her partisan hit-and-run, claiming, “I didn’t ask a question.”
“She doesn’t want me to answer. Can I answer anyway?” Rubio asked the committee Chairman, exposing Duckworth’s blatant attempt to avoid the truth. “She made a bunch of points. I get to answer them, right?”
When the Chairman ruled that Secretary Rubio did, in fact, have the right to respond to the wild accusations, Duckworth completely lost her cool, frantically interrupting and shouting over him about the Trump administration “blowing through money.”
That is when Rubio absolutely SNAPPED, shutting down the rude, interrupting Democrat with a booming dose of reality.
“WHEN do I get to talk? Do I get to talk?!” Rubio demanded.
Once he secured the floor, Secretary Rubio delivered a masterclass in American diplomacy, utterly embarrassing Duckworth by listing off major, historic peace deals brokered by the administration that the mainstream media completely ignores.
Rubio reminded the panel of massive diplomatic victories, including a historic peace deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia signed just days ago, key de-escalation efforts between India and Pakistan, and ongoing, successful brokered talks between Lebanon and Israel happening right now at the State Department.
Rubio then gave the clueless leftists a basic lesson on how government actually works, reminding them that Congress—not the State Department—holds the purse strings. He even looked over at Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI), noting that the administration is ready to work on parameters, but will always deliver massive results.
WATCH:
HOLY CRAP! Sec. Marco Rubio SNAPS at Sen. Duckworth (D) for being insanely rude “WHEN DO I GET TO TALK HERE?”
DUCKWORTH: *Lobs attacks at Marco Rubio* “I yield back my time.”
MARCO RUBIO: “OK, I didn’t get to answer ANY of that. Can I ANSWER? She made a bunch of POINTS,… pic.twitter.com/sxCAwPgerh
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 2, 2026
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