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Secretary Rubio Delivers Remarks at the American Compass Fifth Anniversary Gala, Jun. 3, 2025

June 3, 2025 · U.S. Department of State · 0:18:38

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What happened

Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered remarks at the American Compass Fifth Anniversary Gala in Washington, D.C., on June 3, 2025, according to the State Department broadcast (remarks delivered June 3; uploaded by the Department on June 4).

Rubio argued that the post-Cold War consensus — that nationhood no longer mattered in economics and that it did not matter where things were made — was a mistake that “robbed a nation of its industrial capacity.” Losing the ability to make things, he said, hurt the economy and gutted communities across the industrialized West, and it is also “a national security impediment”: American industrial capacity, he argued, is what won World War II and remains decisive. He closed by introducing Vice President JD Vance, calling him “one of the most powerful and clearest voices in the world” at the leading edge of the new thinking in American politics.

Why it matters

The gala speech is Rubio the theorist: the Secretary of State laying out, in his own words, the industrial-policy case — production as both economic and national-security policy — that underlies the administration’s trade and foreign policy he now executes.

Sources: U.S. Department of State, official upload (embedded above). Remarks as delivered 2025-06-03; transcript reviewed in the site’s private research store; full transcript at state.gov.