At a State Department press briefing on Thursday, Spokesperson Tammy Bruce was asked about Sec. Marco Rubio's salary.
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00:00after after Venezuela let's go ahead I think many Americans are American taxpayers are just
00:09wondering how this is going to work between both the State Department as well as the National
00:13Security Advisor position and I know that you addressed this before but this was it was a day
00:17there's something new every day many things have happened since then yes and so I was wondering
00:22does this position come with a higher salary is he going to have an office over at the White House
00:27how much will he be at the White House over here and then I have a follow-up well from initial
00:32examinations it appears as though despite needing a giant business card with you know a bunch of jobs
00:38on it he's being paid one salary so we he's saving Americans money as a matter of fact by by doing
00:45multiple jobs but I think what's interesting here and certainly the the India Pakistan situation
00:50highlights this is that and we've thought about this that the work of the State Department and
00:55foreign policy very often because of the nature of of the world matches the nature of the NS the
01:03National Security Advisors work of course we are all working to move forward President Trump's agenda and
01:10his vision for making not just America great but that also of course benefits the world at large so
01:17we're looking at a dynamic with Secretary Rubio in fact again being a point person in the lead of this
01:23these these initial days of dealing with Pakistan and and India that those conversations have been
01:29vital and important and his his role as has made that possible and of course it's it's would always be
01:37that way this is not an unusual position for him with the work that he's already been doing so I've
01:42mentioned to our our in-house our resident reporters that I don't see and I think most of us don't see much
01:50change at all because of already the nature of the agenda of the Trump administration and how
01:56it's moved forward so with money he's saving us some money and also remember this is an interim
02:03position that it is it's not a permanent position he's he's but it matches perfectly well because of
02:10the nature of his work anyway the State Department as I've noted has an impressive bench of leaders and
02:17our work of course continues regularly and sometimes instead of seeing him in person we will have a
02:24conversation on the phone but yes so we don't see any I don't know if Americans will see any disruption
02:30or change other than the successes that come forward with President Trump and and Secretary Rubio so you're
02:37saying it's the same exact salary as before well I would I would have to I didn't know what his salary
02:43was before okay I don't know what it is right now but I do I know that he's not receiving two salaries
02:49or more that's what I know all right Sean one more time