Sen. Marco Rubio is promising that he’ll work against assigning a U.S. ambassador to Cuba, a year after the Obama administration restored diplomatic ties with the communist country.

The Florida Republican told Politico in an interview published Wednesday that he will continue to fight against any hypothetical ambassador nominee that President Obama or the next president may try to appoint.

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