← Chronicle · Confirmation · January 21, 2025

Marco Rubio Confirmed as Secretary of State, 99–0

Senate vote: 99–0

Marco Rubio was confirmed by the Senate as Secretary of State on January 21, 2025, by a vote of 99–0 — a unanimous vote for the former Florida senator who became the administration’s chief diplomat. He is the 72nd Secretary of State.

The mission that started here is the foreign-policy portfolio this chronicle tracks: the State Department, the alliance system, and — from May 2025, in an acting capacity that later became permanent — the National Security Advisor role as well, making Rubio the holder of two of the administration’s central foreign-policy posts.

Sources: Senate confirmation record, January 21, 2025 (vote and date banked in this site’s research cluster A); Department of State.