From the Daily Caller: Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois raised their voices at each other during an exchange Wednesday over the Trump administration’s foreign policy.
Rubio testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about Venezuela, a hearing held in the wake of strikes on boats suspected of drug trafficking and the capture of dictator Nicolas Maduro. Duckworth peppered Rubio on a number of topics, jumping from whether the United States was at war to if the United States was “torturing” people.
“Mr. Secretary, are we at, are we currently at war with Venezuela?” Duckworth asked, with Rubio responding, “No, we’re not in a state of war in Venezuela.”
“OK, the Supreme Court has described the Alien Enemies Act as a wartime power, our Supreme Court, and before now, the Alien Enemies Act was only invoked during the War of 1812, World War One, World War Two, when it was used to intern thousands of innocent civilians,” Duckworth claimed. “Are you really arguing that the president should be able to wield an internment law?”
After yelling out her questions to Rubio, Duckworth then kept interrupting and talking over him as he was trying to answer her questions.
Below is the entire fiery episode:
.@SenDuckworth on Trump administration: “The vast majority of the men it rounded up and deported to torture…had no criminal records whatsoever.”
@SecRubio: “We didn’t torture anybody.”Duckworth: “Over 75%.”
Rubio: “Who did we torture? We haven’t tortured anybody.” pic.twitter.com/673uEjiru1
— CSPAN (@cspan) January 28, 2026
Also during the hearing, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) made a big issue of the fact that President Donald Trump recently said “Iceland” when he was actually referring to Greenland.
“The President repeatedly mistook Iceland for Greenland, right?” Kaine prodded.
Rubio responded, “Yeah, he meant to say Greenland. But I think we’re all familiar with presidents that have verbal stumbles. We’ve had presidents like that before. Some made a lot more than this one.”
“Nice try,” Sen. Kaine conceded, quickly deciding he was done.
.@SenTimKaine on Trump’s Davos speech: “The President repeatedly mistook Iceland for Greenland, right?”
@SecRubio: “Yeah, he meant to say Greenland. But I think we’re all familiar with presidents that have verbal stumbles. We’ve had presidents like that before. Some made a lot… pic.twitter.com/oArPdMY4qW— CSPAN (@cspan) January 28, 2026
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