Rubio to brief at White House with press secretary on maternity leave
The secretary of state is putting on yet another Trump administration hat — White House spokesperson.
Rubio is scheduled to fill in Tuesday for White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who is on leave awaiting the birth of her second child. His briefing is scheduled for 3 p.m. EDT.
The nation’s top diplomat already doubles as Trump’s national security adviser and for a while was the acting archivist of the United States and the acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
His last formal briefing for reporters was at the State Department briefing room in December.
Scuttlebutt around the White House has been that Rubio will be among a handful of high-level administration officials leading the press briefings while Leavitt is away.
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