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Secretary Rubio Gives Year in Review, Dec. 24, 2025

December 24, 2025 · The White House · 0:02:02

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What happened

Secretary of State Marco Rubio — introducing himself, with a nod to his multiple hats, as “the national security adviser and the secretary of state and the archivist right now, the acting archivist” — delivered a short year-in-review message carried by the White House on December 24, 2025. His ledger for the year led with peace deals: India and Pakistan, Cambodia and Thailand, Azerbaijan and Armenia, and Gaza, where he said the President “got involved, brought it to an end, and with a plan for long-term stability and security.”

Rubio also credited the President with getting NATO allies to raise defense spending to 5 percent, described the State Department reforms that folded USAID’s functions into the department — “now when we give money to countries, we know where the money’s going” — and pointed to the department’s supporting role on border enforcement, including more countries accepting the return of their nationals. He closed by saying the President “has kept his promise to the American people” and wishing viewers a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year: “The best is yet to come.”

Why it matters

The message is the Secretary’s own year-end accounting of the administration’s foreign-policy record — the claims, in his words, against which the second year would be measured — delivered in his combined capacity as Secretary of State and National Security Advisor.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard candidate: the dated claims in Rubio’s December 24, 2025 year-in-review — the four peace agreements he named, the NATO 5-percent spending commitment, and the USAID-into-State reorganization. Flagged for the scoreboard editor; no entry is published from this page.

Sources: The White House, “Secretary Rubio Gives Year in Review” (official upload, embedded above). Remarks as delivered; transcript reviewed in the site’s private research store.