WASHINGTON—The nominee to serve as United Nations Secretary General is a pro-abortion extremist who is unfit to serve in the role, Republicans told Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a letter first obtained by The Daily Wire.
The bicameral group of lawmakers, led by Republican Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey, told Rubio on Thursday that former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet &#8220;does not match the qualifications&#8221; President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration is seeking in the next secretary general, given her record of pro-abortion advocacy and the support she has from abortion proponents around the world.
As one of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, the United States has the power to veto Bachelet&#8217;s selection to be the next Secretary General. The lawmakers urge Rubio to instruct U.N. Ambassador Michael Waltz to exercise that veto.
&#8220;Dr. Bachelet’s resume reveals a pro-abortion zealot intent on using political authority to override state sovereignty in favor of extreme agendas,&#8221; the lawmakers write. &#8220;She has both overtly attacked pro-life laws — including those of the United States — and sought to weaken them through intimidation and coercion.&#8221;
Bachelet served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as Executive Director of United Nations Women, and as the president of Chile. In each of these roles, the Republicans stressed, she has pushed for abortions of unborn babies as a woman&#8217;s right. President Donald Trump actually pulled the United States out of U.N. Women in January 2026, saying that participation in U.N. Women is contrary to U.S. interests.
&#8220;Dr. Bachelet has repeatedly prioritized an extreme abortion agenda at the expense of state sovereignty,&#8221; the lawmakers told Rubio. &#8220;She is an unsuitable candidate, and the United States, as a permanent member of the Security Council, should veto Dr. Bachelet’s selection.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_1066457" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-republicans-press-rubio-to-block-pro-abortion-zealot-un-secretary-general-nominee/chile-election-runoff-vote" rel="attachment wp-att-1066457"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1066457" class="wp-image-1066457 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-2251241254-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-2251241254-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-2251241254-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-2251241254-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-2251241254.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>Chile&#8217;s former president (2006-2010 and 2014-2018) Michelle Bachelet speaks to the press after casting her ballot during the presidential runoff election in Santiago on December 14, 2025. (Photo by Raul BRAVO / AFP via Getty Images)</div>
The United States has previously emphasized that it wants a Secretary General who shares the American vision of &#8220;returning the UN to its founding purpose of maintaining international peace and security,&#8221; as Ambassador Dorothy Shea argued in October 2025, during remarks at a United Nations Security Council Briefing. &#8220;The next Secretary-General should reject initiatives that fall outside the Charter’s founding purpose, prioritize accountability and transparency, and respect state sovereignty.&#8221;
The lawmakers argue that Bachelet would not match such a vision, and that she would instead promote &#8220;divisive ideologies.&#8221;
&#8220;However, Dr. Bachelet’s previous promotion of an extreme abortion agenda suggests that, if selected as the next UNSG, she would 
continue the UN practice of engaging in &#8216;the propagation of divisive ideologies that undermine national sovereignty and stir controversy rather than bring member states together to address issues of common concern.&#8217;  Her demonstrated ambitions and priorities, outlined below, conflict with the United States determination to bring the UN &#8216;back to the basics.'&#8221;
They note that Bachelet, when she served as the High Commissioner for Human Rights, deplored the United States Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in June 2022, calling the decision a &#8220;major setback,” a “huge blow to women’s human rights,” and a decision that “strips autonomy” from women. They note that she described abortion as &#8220;firmly rooted in international human rights law,&#8221; saying that the procedure, which brutally ends the life of a human baby, &#8220;is at the core of women and girls’ autonomy.”
Since Bachelet has set the precedent of &#8220;using her office to attack United States pro-life law,&#8221; she cannot be trusted to respect the United States&#8217; &#8220;right to enforce pro-life laws and policies, include the Protecting Life in Foreign Assistance policy and the executive order Enforcing the Hyde Amendment,&#8221; the Republicans argue.
Bachelet has spent her career arguing for more abortions and fewer pro-life laws: in 2022, as the lawmakers point out, she said that &#8220;restrictive abortion laws and practical barriers pose a threat to human rights&#8221; and praised the weakening of pro-life laws in Colombia, Argentina, and Mexico.
&#8220;The truth is that killing an unborn child by abortion can never be construed to be a human right,&#8221; the Republicans wrote. &#8220;Every person — born and unborn—deserves to have his or her human rights secured and protected.&#8221;
They also point to a 2020 fact sheet from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, published under Bachelet&#8217;s purview, that claims &#8220;treaty body jurisprudence has indicated that denying women access to abortion can amount to violations of the rights to health, privacy and, in certain cases, the right to be free from cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment.”
Failure to abort babies is &#8220;a form of gender based violence against women, which can amount to torture and/or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment,&#8221; the fact sheet asserts. The Republicans argue that these claims are in contradiction to the Geneva Consensus Declaration, a document signed by the United States and 30 other nations affirming there is no international right to abortion.
Bachelet has also failed to oppose coerced abortion in China, traveling to the nation at the invitation of the Chinese Communist Party in order to investigate reports of human rights abuses in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the lawmakers tell Rubio.
&#8220;She should have honestly identified the atrocities committed by the CCP against the Uyghurs as a genocide,&#8221; they wrote. &#8220;Instead, she released a watered-down report literally minutes before her term expired. She allowed the CCP to blatantly shield itself from an honest assessment and to sidestep responsibility for its horrific human rights abuses. In an appalling failure of leadership, Dr. Bachelet crumbled under pressure and enabled the CCP to manipulate the visit for its own advantage.&#8221;
As she campaigned for the Chilean presidency, Bachelet promised to weaken the country&#8217;s pro-life law that protected all unborn babies. She followed through by authoring a bill legalizing abortion and sending it to Chile&#8217;s Congress. The bill was approved and established into law, allowing abortions when the baby was a risk to the mother&#8217;s life, had fatal fetal abnormalities, or was the result of a rape.
While the change in law might seem minimal or even standard for Americans, for Chileans, the law change was a cultural shift and a door opened to future pro-abortion laws.
The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment for this story.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio will have another task added to his plate, but this one wasn&#8217;t ordered by President Donald Trump.
Rubio is expected to take the witness stand on Tuesday in the federal trial of a former Republican congressman who is accused of secretly lobbying on behalf of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.
The trial of David Rivera began on Monday in Miami with prosecutors alleging that Rivera &#8220;offered access&#8221; to U.S. politicians without registering as a foreign lobbyist and was paid $20 million by a Venezuelan state-owned company to attempt to improve U.S.-Venezuela relations, Reuters reported. Rivera and his co-defendant, Esther Nuhfer, met with U.S. lawmakers, including Rubio, as they allegedly attempted to persuade politicians to hold off on economic sanctions on Venezuela.
&#8220;They sold their loyalty. They offered access, the defendants did, to United States politicians that they&#8217;ve spent decades establishing relationships with,&#8221; prosecutor Roger Cruz said during opening statements on Monday.
&#8220;The evidence will show that for $50 million these two defendants made a pact to secretly lobby for Nicolás Maduro, the communist director, and his second in command Delcy Rodríguez,&#8221; Cruz added, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/rubio-rivera-miami-trial-venezuela-5993890ac0d3deece86f6ed900959a64">Associated Press</a>.
Rivera allegedly convinced then-Foreign Minister Delcy Rodríguez, who is now Venezuela&#8217;s acting leader, to award him a three-month $50 million contract in exchange for his lobbying. Rivera signed the contract in 2017, according to federal prosecutors. The allegations against Rivera stem from after he was in Congress, where he served just one term from 2011 to 2013. Rivera shared a home with Rubio in the early 2000s when they were both serving in the Florida legislature.
When Rubio takes the stand on Tuesday, he will become the first sitting Cabinet member to testify at a criminal trial since Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan testified during a mafia-related trial in 1983. The timing of the criminal trial is intriguing, given that Rubio is currently playing a major role in President Donald Trump&#8217;s Venezuela strategy following the capture of Maduro and the efforts to revitalize and oversee Venezuela&#8217;s oil industry.
Rubio&#8217;s testimony will likely focus on his 2017 meetings with Rivera when Rubio was serving in the U.S. Senate. During the first of those meetings, Rivera revealed details about working with Venezuelan media tycoon Raúl Gorrín, who supposedly held vast influence inside the Venezuelan regime and was working to convince Maduro to hold fair elections, according to an indictment unsealed in 2022. Gorrín has also been charged in the United States with bribing Venezuelan officials.
Rivera and Gorrín also communicated in a private group chat with others and used code names for Maduro, whom they called &#8220;bus driver,&#8221; and Rodríguez, whom they referred to as &#8220;the lady in red.&#8221; According to the indictment, Rivera texted Rubio two days after the meeting, writing, &#8220;Remember, U.S. should facilitate, not just support, a negotiated solution. No vengeance, reconciliation.&#8221;
Rivera, alongside Gorrín and others, met with Rubio a second time and allegedly said in a private group chat with Gorrín that Maduro would have to pay him for setting up the meeting with the U.S. senator. Rivera and Gorrín also asked Texas Republican Congressman Pete Sessions to set up a meeting between Rodríguez and Exxon Mobil.
The defense argues that Rivera and Nuhfer were not required to register as foreign lobbyists under U.S. law because they were focused on commercial issues, such as convincing Exxon to move back to Venezuela, not on political lobbying, the Associated Press reported. Rivera&#8217;s defense also claims that because he was hired for consulting by the American subsidiary of Venezuela&#8217;s state-owned oil company, he was not required to register as a foreign lobbyist.
Rivera’s defense attorney Ed Shohat told the jury on Monday, &#8220;Not one single policy of the U.S. was impacted by this case.&#8221;
The defense team wanted Maduro, who is awaiting his own trial in the United States, to testify, but the former dictator said he would exercise his Fifth Amendment right if called to testify. The defense team also sought to subpoena White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, who was working as a lobbyist for Gorrín&#8217;s network at the time, to testify in the trial, but that effort was shot down.

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In a move that surprises absolutely no one familiar with the &#8220;Gray Lady’s&#8221; obsession with laundering leftist narratives, the New York Times has once again been caught pushing anonymous leaks as front-page news. This time, the target is the Trump administration’s Cuba policy, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio isn&#8217;t just calling them out — he’s incinerating the outlet&#8217;s credibility.
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The Times published a sensationalist report titled, “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/world/americas/trump-cuba-president-diaz-canel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TlA.Ygf9.a5SMOwYKG0cM#after-story-ad-7">Trump Administration Said to Tell Cuba That Its President Has to Go</a>,” alleging that U.S. negotiators are cutting backroom deals to swap Cuba&#8217;s figureheads while leaving the broader communist apparatus intact. The story relies heavily on anonymous sources and reads more like a fever dream of D.C. bureaucrats than actual reporting.
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Rubio, the son of Cuban exiles whose political career is inextricably linked to the fight against Havana, took to X to dismantle the report with surgical precision. &#8220;The reason so many in US media keep putting out fake stories like this one is because they continue to rely on charlatans &amp; liars claiming to be in the know as their sources,&#8221; Rubio blasted.
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The reason so many in US media keep putting out fake stories like this one is because they continue to rely on charlatans &amp; liars claiming to be in the know as their sources. <a href="https://t.co/mfzZbeO9UT">https://t.co/mfzZbeO9UT</a>
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As the primary architect of the &#8220;hardline&#8221; approach — from the Cuba Restricted List to returning the regime to the State Sponsors of Terrorism list — Rubio has consistently argued that the only real &#8220;blockade&#8221; on the island is the one the regime imposes on its own people. Whether it&#8217;s medicine, the internet, or remittances, Rubio has spent years exposing how the regime uses control as a weapon. For the Times to suggest he is now negotiating with &#8220;Raulito&#8221; Castro to keep the system in place is not just a bad lead; it’s a deliberate insult to the exile community.
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But this is par for the course for the Times. This is the same &#8220;Paper of Record&#8221; that <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/11/10/us-news/nyt-has-yet-to-issue-correction-for-wrongly-claiming-trump-falsely-accused-fema-of-avoiding-supporters-homes/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">spent weeks</a> &#8220;fact-checking&#8221; Donald Trump’s claims that FEMA neglected Republican homes — only to stay silent when FEMA itself admitted an official ordered workers to &#8220;avoid homes advertising Trump.&#8221; It’s the same outlet that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyt-humiliated-leavitt-dismantles-fake-news-narrative-on-trumps-health?utm_source=chatgpt.com">lacerated</a> for questioning the president’s fitness using anonymous hacks, while previously claiming a stumbling Joe Biden was &#8220;100% fine.&#8221;
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For Rubio, the Times&#8217; Cuba piece is just the latest entry in a long ledger of institutional gaslighting. By relying on &#8220;charlatans&#8221; to push a narrative of managed transition, the Times is attempting to memory-hole the administration&#8217;s true goal: the total collapse of the Marxist dictatorship. Rubio’s message is clear: the administration isn&#8217;t interested in the Times’ symbolic reshuffling. While the &#8220;fact-checkers&#8221; continue to protect the regime, Rubio is busy reminding the world that if the regime wants the embargo to end, it can start by freeing political prisoners and holding fair elections.
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As the 2026 midterm elections approach, Democrats are fighting to claim the majority in one or both chambers of Congress. But, according to a recent poll, the Democratic Party is polling below almost every key figure and organization — with the exception of the brutal Iranian regime.
<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27777984-nbc-news-march-2026-poll-03-08-2024-release-final/">An NBC News poll</a>, published by the legacy news outlet on March 8, asked a number of standard questions regarding the economy, military action in Iran, and the overall performance thus far of President Donald Trump — but it also ranked a number of key figures and organizations based on their net favorability.
The Democratic Party, with a net favorability rating of -22, ranked near the bottom of the list — in fact, only the Iranian regime ranked below the Democrats, albeit with a much lower net favorability of -53. Pope Leo the 14th ranked highest overall with a net favorability of 34.
President Donald Trump (-12) and the Republican Party (-14) were near the middle of the list — and as far as 2028 presidential contenders, Republicans fared far better than Democrats did there as well. Two of the most likely Democratic primary candidates — former Vice President Kamala Harris at -17 and Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feminist-hero-katie-couric-asks-gavin-newsom-if-hes-too-hot-to-be-president-in-hard-hitting-interview">Gavin Newsom</a> (D-CA) at -18 — ranked decidedly lower than current Vice President JD Vance (-11) and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (-7). Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who is rumored to be considering either a presidential bid or a move to unseat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, was the only Democrat to break into the top half of the list, tying with Vance at -11.
The poll surveyed 1000 registered voters, just over half of whom were female. They were evenly divided along political lines, with 42% saying they leaned Republican, 42% saying they leaned Democrat, and the rest identifying themselves as either independent or other.
As to the other questions, just under half (44%) said they approved of President Trump&#8217;s performance thus far, and 54% disapproved. On border security specifically, the president fared much better, with just over half (53%) approving of his actions and a little less than half (44%) disapproving. On foreign policy, 43% approved and 54% disapproved — a slight shift from one year prior, when 45% approved and 53% disapproved. On the war in Iran, more than one-third (41%) approved of the president&#8217;s actions, and just over half (54%) disapproved.
A number of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/odds-have-gone-plummeting-down-cnn-data-guru-says-democrat-hopes-of-flipping-house-are-fading">polls</a> in recent months have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/voters-abandon-democrats-support-hits-lowest-level-in-more-than-three-decades-poll">spelled trouble</a> for the Democrats, with one from The Wall Street Journal (in July of 2025) noting that Democrats had sunk to their lowest approval rating in decades, with well over half (63%) holding a negative view of the party.

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The following is an edited transcript excerpt from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1926-kristi-noem-is-officially-out-at-dhs?elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowHeadline=Recent+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel">The Michael Knowles Show</a>.
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Are we about to take Cuba? President Trump keeps talking about it.
The first time, you might say, well, it&#8217;s a joke. The second time, maybe it&#8217;s still a joke.
The thing about jokes, though, is they often have an element of truth to them. 
First, on Monday, when asked about the communist nation 90 miles off the Florida coast, he said this:
<blockquote>The Cuban government is talking with us. They&#8217;re in a big deal of trouble, as you know. They have no money. They have no anything right now. But they&#8217;re talking with us, and maybe we&#8217;ll have a friendly takeover &#8230; We could very well end up having a friendly takeover of Cuba.</blockquote>
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Trump: &#8220;Maybe we&#8217;ll have a friendly takeover of Cuba. We could very well end up having a friendly takeover of Cuba.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/YCI8WcxzBG">pic.twitter.com/YCI8WcxzBG</a>
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This was the line he made a few days ago: maybe we&#8217;ll have a friendly takeover of Cuba. 
Then yesterday, Thursday, he brings up Cuba again. 
<blockquote>All of a sudden you see—where&#8217;s Marco? He&#8217;s not around anymore. I don’t see him, he&#8217;s doing some job. Next one is going to be… we want to do that special Cuba, he&#8217;s waiting. He says let&#8217;s get this one finished first. We could do them all at the same time, but bad things happen if you watch countries over the years. If you do them all too fast, bad things happen. We&#8217;re not going to let anything bad happen to this country.</blockquote>
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Trump announces Cuba is the US’ next target.
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Trump says, “Look—we&#8217;re not going to do it right away. But maybe Marco is going to head on down.”
Marco Rubio, who&#8217;s wanted to topple the communist regime in Cuba for his entire life.
Are we going to do it?
I think Trump is serious about taking Cuba. I think it makes sense to take Cuba.
And let me remind you that this is something that basically everybody agreed on until recently. 
Trump&#8217;s most vocal critic who used to be on the Right and now is on the Left — Bill Kristol — worked in a Republican White House, was a major thought leader on the Right who then he became a Biden guy and a Kamala guy — even Bill Kristol, who hates Donald Trump with the fire of a thousand suns, said some years ago that we should take Cuba.
We have already taken Cuba on multiple occasions. We&#8217;ve controlled Cuba three or four times over the last hundred years. This is not that weird. It&#8217;s 90 miles off the coast of Florida. The regime is starving right now. They don&#8217;t have oil. They don&#8217;t have leadership. Virtually no one can even name the president of Cuba.
I can, because I&#8217;m particularly interested in the tobacco industry — and also it&#8217;s a nice place, Cuba. But can you name the leader of Cuba? No. 
His name is Miguel Díaz-Canel.
We remember the Castros. Fidel Castro ruled for decades and then his brother Raúl took over. But the Castros are now gone.
After Trump took over Venezuela, Cuba has really been on the brink of collapse. So there does seem to be a method to this. And after Iran — maybe check in five or six weeks — maybe Cuba&#8217;s next.
Not so bad.
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President Trump Teases Taking Cuba

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President Donald Trump told CNN host Dana Bash on Friday that Cuba&#8217;s communist government is on the brink of collapse, adding that he would soon send Secretary of State Marco Rubio to handle the situation in the Caribbean island nation.
Bash <a href="https://x.com/DanaBashCNN/status/2029926445431079095">reported</a> that she spoke with Trump on multiple issues across the globe, including the war with Iran and the situation bubbling over in Cuba. Trump told Bash, &#8220;Cuba is gonna fall pretty soon,&#8221; adding that the United States has &#8220;plenty of time, but Cuba is ready.&#8221; Bash also said that Trump told her he would soon &#8220;put Marco over there.&#8221;
Rubio, whom Trump has called the &#8220;greatest secretary of State in U.S. history,&#8221; is the son of Cuban parents who immigrated to the United States just before Fidel Castro seized power. Throughout his political career, Rubio has hoped for the Cuban people to free themselves from communist rule. Now, Rubio has a chance to help turn that hope into reality as he will likely play the most important role in U.S. efforts to stabilize Cuba.
The communist Cuban regime is in the middle of a major economic collapse, with inflation rising out of control and the country&#8217;s infrastructure continuing to fall apart. The economic situation in Cuba deteriorated further after the United States successfully captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and took control of Venezuela&#8217;s oil exports. After Trump&#8217;s action, the Venezuelan government stopped shipping oil to Cuba, and the U.S. military has been intercepting ships from other nations attempting to offload fuel in Cuba, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/world/americas/cuba-oil-blockade-trump.html">reported</a>. The Cuban government is believed to have just a few weeks of fuel supply left before the country goes into a blackout.
A United Nations official in Cuba <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/02/1167046">said</a> last week that the situation in the country is &#8220;becoming fragile,&#8221; with food security also &#8220;deteriorating.&#8221;
As Trump rewrites the rules of America&#8217;s foreign policy strategy, he has set his sights on Cuba, but a major military operation targeting the country appears unlikely at the moment. Instead, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-suggests-friendly-takeover-of-cuba-after-boat-incident?author=Cameron+Arcand&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Suggests+%E2%80%98Friendly+Takeover+Of+Cuba%E2%80%99+After+Boat+Incident">suggested</a> a &#8220;friendly takeover&#8221; of the country last week.
&#8220;The Cuban government is talking with us. They’re in a big deal of trouble, as you know. They have no money, no anything right now,” Trump said. “Maybe we’ll have a friendly takeover of Cuba. We could very well end up having a friendly takeover of Cuba.”
As the crisis in Cuba worsens, the Cuban government <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/deadly-gun-battle-off-cubas-coast-florida-registered-boat-at-center-of-clash?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Deadly+Gun+Battle+Off+Cuba%E2%80%99s+Coast+%E2%80%94+Florida-Registered+Boat+At+Center+Of+Clash">said</a> that its troops shot and killed multiple people on a speedboat from Florida that it accused of opening fire on Cuban soldiers just off the country&#8217;s coast. At least five people aboard the speedboat were killed, and Cuba charged the five surviving crew members with terrorism. Rubio said that the incident was not a U.S.-backed operation.
For decades, Cuba remained a thorn in America&#8217;s side as the island nation, just 100 miles off the Florida coast, was closely allied with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The 13-day Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 is still considered the closest the world has ever come to full-scale nuclear war, and the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion on the southwestern coast of Cuba remains one of the biggest U.S. military failures in history.

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The following is an edited transcript excerpt from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1923-did-israel-drag-us-into-war-in-iran?elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowHeadline=Recent+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel">The Michael Knowles Show</a>.
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There are a lot of people out there in the online chattering class, including Trump supporters, who are saying,
This is ridiculous. We were told “no new wars.” We were told we certainly wouldn’t go to war with Iran. This is a complete betrayal of MAGA and America First.
Some are even arguing that if voters had known America was going to war with Iran, especially if we were going to get dragged into it by Israel, they never would have voted for Trump. He’s a liar, this is a betrayal.
Hold on.
President Trump has been clear for a decade that he is not going to let Iran get a nuclear weapon and that he is going to oppose the Iranian regime. He has also made it pretty clear that he does not like the fact that Iran has repeatedly tried to kill him.
But let’s go deeper than Trump’s rhetoric. Let’s look at what Vice President JD Vance has said.
Back in October 2024, during the vice-presidential debate, Vance was directly asked about a preemptive strike involving Israel and Iran. He was asked this exact question, and he gave an excellent answer:
<blockquote>“Look, it is up to Israel what they think they need to do to keep their country safe. And we should support our allies wherever they are when they’re fighting the bad guys.”</blockquote>
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Whether you agree or disagree with Vance’s statement, you cannot accuse the Trump administration of flip-flopping on this issue. You cannot accuse the Trump administration of hiding the ball or deceiving voters.
They promised to do exactly what they are doing now. And they have been very clearly telegraphing it for the past two months, with the military buildup in the Persian Gulf.
That doctrine was not invented last week. It was spelled out in a debate on national television.
Vance gave a similar answer to Sean Hannity back in July of 2024 when <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1923-did-israel-drag-us-into-war-in-iran?elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowHeadline=Recent+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel">he articulated</a> what he called the core of the Trump doctrine in foreign policy — you don’t commit America’s troops unless you really have to. But when you do, you “punch hard.”
“If you&#8217;re going to punch the Iranians, you punch them hard,” Vance told Hannity. “And that&#8217;s what he did. We took out Soleimani, by the way. That action, people said that it would lead to a broader war. It actually brought peace. It actually checked the Iranians and slowed them down a little bit.”
And if that weren’t enough, the administration telegraphed its intentions in another way: the military buildup in the Persian Gulf.
For the past two months, the United States has been gradually but severely building up military assets outside of Iran. Aircraft carriers. Strike groups. Strategic positioning. That kind of buildup does not happen overnight because a foreign leader calls and says, “Hey, we’re going in tomorrow. Do whatever you want.”
The notion that Israel sprang this on Washington at the last minute simply does not square with the scale and duration of that preparation.
Now, it may be true that Israeli action influenced the timing. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said as much: Israel was going to strike, and Iran was going to retaliate against U.S. forces, whether we liked it or not. That forced a decision about whether to preemptively strike before American casualties mounted.
But that is not the same thing as saying the United States was dragged, kicking and screaming, into a war it never intended to fight.
There is a difference between timing and intent.
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1923-did-israel-drag-us-into-war-in-iran?elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowHeadline=Recent+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel">WATCH: The Michael Knowles Show on DailyWire+</a></h3>
The administration’s position, whether you agree with it or not, is coherent. Iran’s missile and drone capabilities were advancing rapidly. Secretary Rubio has argued that within a year or so, Iran could cross a “threshold of immunity” — meaning it would have so many short-range missiles and drones that it could hold the region hostage.
That is the case they are making.
You can argue that intelligence is flawed. You can argue that the risk calculus is wrong. You can argue that the costs will outweigh the benefits. But you cannot say this was a surprise.
If you voted for this administration, and you were not aware that it took a hard line on Iran, that it supported Israel’s right to strike, and that it believed in overwhelming force when force is used — then you were not paying attention. That’s on you.
That is not an insult; it is an observation.
The Trump foreign policy doctrine has never been isolationist. It has never been “America hides under the covers.” It has been “America First,” which means pursuing American interests pragmatically and forcefully when necessary.
Reasonable minds can differ on whether this particular strike was wise, especially when people have different levels of information about whether or not the strike is a good idea. But in terms of the grand strategy, I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s much room for disagreement.
The administration did not flip overnight; they campaigned on confronting Iran. They defended preemptive action in principle. They promised to “punch hard” if they had to. And then they did exactly that.
You can call it reckless. You can call it bold. You can call it dangerous.
But you cannot call it hidden.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio fired back at reporters on Monday when they questioned him about the joint military action undertaken by the United States and Israel against the Iranian regime, asking why no one from President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration had notified Congress before the first strikes.
Rubio said that the Gang of Eight — a bipartisan group that is comprised of the eight top-ranking congressional leaders — had been informed, but said that no law compelled the administration to inform Congress writ large prior to taking action.
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&#8220;Why not notify Congress?!&#8221;
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&#8220;Why not notify Congress ahead of this —?&#8221; the reporter asked.
&#8220;Well, we did,&#8221; Rubio pushed back immediately. &#8220;We notified Congress, well, we notified the Gang of Eight, we notified congressional leadership. There&#8217;s no law that says we have to do that. The law says that we have to notify them 48 hours after beginning hostilities. We&#8217;ve done that. I think the notification went today.&#8221;
&#8220;But we did notify members of Congress in advance,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We can&#8217;t notify 535 members of Congress.&#8221;
When one reporter interrupted, arguing that Congress had to vote on a resolution declaring war, Rubio shot back, &#8220;Congress can vote on whatever they want, but there&#8217;s NO law saying we have to do that. And I&#8217;m going to say something because I see people on TV — look, that&#8217;s fine, if they want to take a War Powers vote, they can do that, they&#8217;ve done that. They&#8217;ve done that a bunch of times.&#8221;
Rubio repeated that there was no law requiring a president to take any action to notify Congress about strikes before engaging, adding, &#8220;To begin with, no presidential administration has ever accepted the War Powers Act as constitutional, not Republican presidents, not Democratic presidents. That said, we have followed the notification at 48 hours, and we&#8217;re here today.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ve done more Gang of Eight briefings than I got in four years of Biden! I was in the Gang of 8. We complied with the law and we will continue to comply with it,&#8221; he concluded.
According to the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R47603">War Powers Resolution of 1973</a>, the president must inform Congress within 48 hours after taking military action or sending troops into combat or imminent combat. A president can then continue such military action for only 60 days — with an additional 30 days for troop drawdown — without a vote from Congress authorizing the continued operations.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a clear-eyed assessment of the Iranian threat during a press briefing on Wednesday, signaling that while the administration remains open to a diplomatic path, the window for Tehran to change course is narrowing.
Rubio’s message was unmistakable: the United States will no longer tolerate an Iranian regime that builds &#8220;hidden&#8221; nuclear infrastructure while pointing a massive arsenal of ballistic missiles at American interests.
Rubio addressed the talks recommencing on Thursday by reminding the world that Iran’s nuclear ambitions remain the primary flashpoint. Despite the crippling of their program under Operation Midnight Hammer, Rubio warned that the regime has not abandoned its desire to enrich uranium.
“After their nuclear program was obliterated, they were told not to try to restart it, and here they are,” he noted. “You can see them always trying to rebuild elements of it. They’re not enriching right now, but they’re trying to get to the point where they ultimately can.”
Rubio directly challenged the “peaceful energy” narrative often peddled by Tehran. He noted that if Iran truly wanted nuclear power, it would follow the model of other nations — utilizing above-ground reactors and imported fuel. Instead, their insistence on enriching uranium deep inside mountains suggests a singular, more sinister goal.
“If what they really wanted was energy from it, they could do small modular reactors, which is something that’s quite affordable and achievable for a lot of countries,&#8221; Rubio said. &#8220;But when you say we want to enrich and we want to enrich deep underground, and you have a history in the past of enriching to 20 and even 60 percent, plus you’re building missiles that could potentially carry warheads, that doesn’t sound to me like someone who’s a country that’s not interested in building weapons.”
“You would have to lack common sense to not know what that means,” Rubio remarked.
He then shifted to Iran&#8217;s conventional military capabilities, arguing that the threat extends well beyond the nuclear file.
“Iran possesses a very large number of ballistic missiles, particularly short-range ballistic missiles that threaten the United States and our bases in the region and our partners in the region, and all of our bases in the UAE, in Qatar, in Bahrain,” he pointed out. “They also possess naval assets that threaten shipping and try to threaten the U.S. Navy. So I want everybody to understand that, and beyond just the nuclear program they possess these conventional weapons that are solely designed to attack America and attack Americans, if they so choose to do so. These things have to be addressed.”
“For a country that’s facing sanctions, whose economy is in tatters&#8230; somehow they still find the money to invest in missiles of greater and greater capacity every year,” Rubio said. “This is an unsustainable threat.”
Asked whether the upcoming negotiations represent the &#8220;last chance&#8221; for a peaceful resolution, Rubio remained measured but firm. He said President Trump &#8220;greatly prefers&#8221; a diplomatic solution and wants progress &#8220;more than anything else.&#8221;
But Rubio made clear there is a major sticking point: Iran’s refusal to discuss its ballistic missile program.
“The Iranian insistence on not discussing ballistic missiles is a big, big problem,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I’ll leave it at that.&#8221;

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Saturday. It was attended by a wide variety of politicos, both from the Trump administration and from the Democratic side of the aisle.
He was the adult in the room.
Marco Rubio is the most well-spoken member of the Trump administration. And when it comes to foreign policy, it’s not even close.
He gave a truly tremendous speech about the relationship between America and Europe.
If you recall, last year, Vice President JD Vance also went to Europe. In Davos, he proceeded to give a speech blistering the Europeans: some parts for good reasons, some parts that weren’t so great.
His speech appeared to draw the hackles of a bunch of Europeans because it was basically saying, “Guys, you seem to be on your own. America is drawing back.”
That is not what Rubio said. What Rubio said is that we have strong bonds, centuries-long bonds with the many European countries, and we also are going to have common interests with those countries, but we need strong allies to stand up for themselves.
He attempted to draw out a definition of what it meant to be in consonance with Europe in a way that Vance, in some ways, failed to advance.
Rubio received a standing ovation for this, which is a good thing because his defense of the Trump administration policy was quite muscular over at the Munich Security Conference.
Rubio suggested that the United States and Europe have a great history of cooperation:
<blockquote>Together we rebuilt a shattered continent in the wake of two devastating world wars. When we found ourselves divided once again by the Iron Curtain, the free West linked arms with the courageous dissidents struggling against tyranny in the East to defeat Soviet communism. We have fought against each other, then reconciled, then fought, then reconciled again. And we have bled and died side by side on battlefields from Kapyong to Kandahar.</blockquote>
Rubio said we definitely need strong allies, that it can&#8217;t just be the United States picking up the check for everybody else. You can&#8217;t build gigantic welfare states on the back of American taxpayers. You need to be strong, because strong alliances require strong allies, and those strong allies are capable of providing deterrence against, for example, a wayward Russia.
“We do not want our allies to be weak, because that makes us weaker,” he said. “We want allies who can defend themselves so that no adversary will ever be tempted to test our collective strength. This is why we do not want our allies to be shackled by guilt and shame. We want allies who are proud of their culture and of their heritage, who understand that we are heirs to the same great and noble civilization, and who, together with us, are willing and able to defend it.
Rubio noted problems that the continent has brought upon itself, ranging from subjecting itself to the Green Revolution,, to the mass migration that it brought upon itself largely through a bizarre sort of blood-guilt, the idea that Europe, because it had destroyed so much of the world during World War II, somehow owed it to the rest of the world to open its borders and bring everyone in.
In the key section of his speech, he talked about the values that are supposed to bring together the United States and Europe.
<blockquote>The fundamental question we must answer at the outset is what exactly are we defending, because armies do not fight for abstractions. Armies fight for a people; armies fight for a nation. Armies fight for a way of life. And that is what we are defending: a great civilization that has every reason to be proud of its history, confident of its future, and aims to always be the master of its own economic and political destiny.</blockquote>
What are the ideas that unite that civilization? He said, “Armies don&#8217;t fight for abstractions.” I beg to differ a little; armies do fight for abstractions. Armies have fought for communism; there are armies that fight for Islamic fundamentalism; there are armies that are fought for Catholicism and for Protestantism. There are armies all over the world that fight for ideas.
The question is, what are the ideas of Western civilization that are worth upholding and preserving? Because if you don&#8217;t know what it is you are defending, it is very difficult to fight for it.
The truth is that Europe itself is a bit of an idea. There are times when members of the European continent have been fighting each other tooth and nail in bloody, centuries-long wars.
What exactly is the concept of Europe? What is the common ideological heritage that actually counts between America and Europe? If you&#8217;re going to talk about Europe as a holistic concept, you have to define your terms. If you&#8217;re going through the history of Europe all the way back to the Roman Empire, what you&#8217;d see is that the Roman Empire was its own civilization. It considered the outlying areas to be barbarians. The word barbarian comes from a Latin root, which means people who speak gibberish. At that time, it applied to the Germans. The Germans were the barbarians. Now they are considered part of European civilization.
After the fall of the Roman Empire, what rose in its wake was Christendom, which was basically the idea of Catholic dominance of the European continent. That grew over the course of the Carolingian Empire and over the course of the subsequent centuries, up until the Protestant Reformation. 
The Protestant Reformation ushered in an era of religious warfare that lasted well over 100 years, and ended with the Peace of Westphalia when the medieval concept of Christendom was replaced by the modern system of nation-states. There was a new concept of Europe that was formed in the aftermath.
The question is always in opposition to what? Whenever you are defining a civilization, civilizations have an internal definition, and then they have a definition with regard to others.
The reality is that the Roman Empire was not only defined as that which was under the sway of Rome, but also in opposition to other empires and armies, German armies, Assyrian armies, Persian armies, or whatever the case may have been.
Christendom was largely forged in opposition to Islam in the aftermath of the fall of the Roman Empire, because Islam was actually a dire threat to Europe and had spread deep into Europe, all the way into France, after the Peace of Westphalia.
About a century later, we saw the rise of the Enlightenment, and then the West became identified with these Enlightenment ideas, a history of Christianity that bled over into a sort of secularized version of many of the key values of Christianity, but with a critical eye toward the idea that religion could answer all questions, and therefore a sort of Aristotelian approach towards science that looked at evidence first.
You got the separation of church and state in many of these countries. You got the rise of the scientific revolution, the rise of the industrial Revolution, the rise of free economies, and all the rest.
And then the West tore itself apart, enduring two world wars.
We saw a West redefined in opposition to Soviet communism and in the aftermath of Soviet communism.
So what is the West? What are these values that we hold dear? It is not just a matter of “common heritage.” It is not just a matter of “common language.” It is not “cultural inheritance” because there are similarities in culture, but also pretty significant differences in these cultures.
To pretend that Europe doesn&#8217;t exist as a concept or as a civilization is silly. It has a shared Christian history that grew out of Christendom, but it also has an Enlightenment history, and it has shared values.
And if those values wane, so too will the alliance between the old world and the new.
Those values include the rule of law, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, property rights, democracy, and small republicanism.
This is one reason among many why Russia has never quite ever entered the world of Europe, and has always sort of existed on the fringes of Europe. Integrating the Russian Empire into Europe has always been a failed experiment.
All of this means Europe needs to uphold its own values. It means the United States needs to uphold its own values, and we all need to understand that a shared history, a shared experience, and a shared set of values are all necessary in order to have an increasingly powerful alliance.
He concluded: 
<blockquote>I am here today to leave it clear that America is charting the path for a new century of prosperity, and that once again we want to do it together with you, our cherished allies and our oldest friends. We want to do it together with you, with a Europe that is proud of its heritage and of its history; with a Europe that has the spirit of creation of liberty that sent ships out into uncharted seas and birthed our civilization; with a Europe that has the means to defend itself and the will to survive.
We should be proud of what we achieved together in the last century, but now we must confront and embrace the opportunities of a new one – because yesterday is over, the future is inevitable, and our destiny together awaits.</blockquote>
This is the right approach for the Trump administration to take.
And Rubio did a phenomenal job of expounding it.

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American diplomats descend on Munich for a high-stakes security conference, agreements between ICE and local law enforcement surged in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, and the U.S. Army paid nearly $2 million to a company with links to the Muslim Brotherhood.
It’s Tuesday, February 17, 2026, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. Today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below:
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Rubio Rocks Munich</h2>
American diplomats descended on Munich this weekend for a high-stakes security conference, amid growing tension between the United States and Europe. 
When Secretary of State Marco Rubio took the stage for his keynote address, he started by taking aim at “a dogmatic vision of free and unfettered trade,” which he says has hollowed out American manufacturing. He slammed the West’s “appeasing of a climate cult” which has “impoverished our people,” and pushed back on mass migration, which he said “threatens the cohesion of our societies and continuity of our culture.” But then, he extended an olive branch of sorts, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlL3pwlO2rE">saying</a> that in the effort to save Western civilization, “While we are prepared, if necessary, to do this alone, it is our preference and it is our hope to do this together with you, our friends here in Europe.” And then, in a remarkable scene, he explained why President Trump has been so hard on Europe. 
At times, it sounded like an intervention from a concerned family member, with Rubio <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlL3pwlO2rE">saying</a> Europe is heading for destruction and that the United States cares too much about it to let that happen. 
<h2 style="text-align: center;">ICE Partners With Hundreds Of Local Law Enforcement Agencies</h2>
Agreements between ICE and local law enforcement have surged in the first year of President Trump’s second term. 
The agreements are a pillar of Trump’s promise to deport dangerous criminals from the United States. It’s not a new system, but it <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/local-police-agreements-with-ice-surge-950-in-first-year-of-trumps-second-term">invites</a> local law enforcement from across the country to have their officers deputized into ICE. Police officers and sheriff’s deputies can then stop people whom they suspect are illegal aliens and start the process of deportation. 
The program operated for years until 2012. Former President Barack Obama curbed it after officers in North Carolina and Arizona were accused of racial profiling. Trump brought it back last year with funding in the &#8220;One Big Beautiful Bill,&#8221; and the number of participating law enforcement agencies has exploded from 135 under Biden to nearly 1,200 today, according to a new report by the advocacy group FWD.US.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">U.S. Army Spends Big With Group Founded By Director Of Muslim Brotherhood-Linked Org</h2>
Few organizations know more about leadership than the U.S. Army. But it <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/army-paid-for-leadership-training-from-company-founded-by-director-of-muslim-brotherhood-linked-group">paid</a> nearly $2 million to a company called the “Nonprofit Empowerment Group” to train its staff to lead. 
The Army Corps of Engineers paid the group $1.7 million between 2021 and 2025 for “leadership” training, and the military also paid it for “writing courses.” The contract sought the “professional services of an academic institution” to provide “graduate level instruction.” 
The reason the government was able to choose this firm was that it was, as its website advertised, a “Disadvantaged Women Small Owned Business.” Despite its name, it’s not a non-profit. It’s a for-profit company operating out of the same office as, and sharing the same officers as, a group called the World Congress of Muslim Philanthropists, which reported being deeply in debt.

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