Secretary of State Marco Rubio was forced to repeatedly demand his basic right to speak during Tuesday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing after Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) delivered a partisan attack on the Trump administration’s State Department budget request and then refused to let him respond. The ugly scene unfolded as Rubio testified on the administration’s FY2027 budget proposal. It all started when Duckworth launched into a bitter, pre-scripted tirade, baselessly claiming that the State Department’s budget request would “undermine” the agency. Hoping to escape any accountability for her words, Duckworth quickly squeaked, “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I yield back,” explicitly trying to muzzle Secretary Rubio from defending the administration. But Rubio wasn’t having any of it. “I didn’t get to answer any of that,”…
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