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Today, Explained

Little Marco’s big portfolio

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

A former rival of President Donald Trump’s now holds four positions in his administration. How Marco Rubio became important at work. This episode was produced by Devan Schwartz, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Photo of Secretary Marco Rubio by Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Marco Rubio now has four jobs in this still new Trump administration. Can you name them all?

0:07.4

You know he's our Secretary of State. That one's easy. You may be heard that last week he became

0:13.5

the president's new interim national security advisor. Hmm. I wonder what happened to the last guy.

0:20.0

We don't talk about sick, no, no, no.

0:23.6

Also, Marco's the acting head of USAID, which you might recall from early February when

0:29.6

USAID was disappearing.

0:31.6

The fourth one's the toughest, though.

0:33.6

Marco Rubio somehow managed to become our nation's chief archivist.

0:38.5

Our biggest question today explained is, does he make four salaries?

0:43.3

I don't know. We've been, like, there are people, reporters trying to find out the answer to that question.

0:49.3

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