Rubio: Administration Lied About Cuba Policy Change

Republican senator Marco Rubio said a top State Department official was “dishonest” about the Obama administration’s plans to change its policy on Cuba. Tony Blinken, the newly confirmed deputy secretary of State, told the Florida senator at his confirmation hearing in November that the administration would not unilaterally change its Cuba policy without “full consultation” with Congress. That consultation, Rubio says, never happened to his knowledge.

“He was dishonest,” Rubio told THE WEEKLY STANDARD Wednesday. “He was clearly evasive.”