President-elect Donald Trump announced his picks for various high-level positions in the State Department, as he rounds out his Cabinet with less than a month and a half until Inauguration Day.
Trump’s State Department is taking shape after he nominated Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for secretary of state, a position that will need to be confirmed by the Senate.
Here are the picks Trump made on Sunday night.
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Deputy secretary of state
Trump nominated Christopher Landau, who served as his U.S. ambassador to Mexico, as his deputy secretary of state, a position in the State Department just below secretary of state. If the secretary of state is absent, the deputy secretary of state will serve in that role in an acting capacity.
In a statement
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