“We are engaged in the world, but we're going to be engaged in a world that makes sense and that's smart.” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday insisted that the Trump administration was not withdrawing from the world. That’s as Rubio fought criticism - by some members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee - of the administration’s cuts to foreign aid and diplomatic budgets. “You're not going to like all the changes, but I want you to know what the intent of the changes are. It is not to dismantle American foreign policy, and it is not to withdraw us from the world, because I just hit 18 countries in 18 weeks. That doesn't sound like much of a withdrawal.” Rubio said that many of the programs he has cut did not serve U.S. interests, and that Washington would remain the world's most generous donor of humanitarian aid. In a sometimes feisty first testimony as Secretary of State, Rubio was challenged over his role in the administration's crackdown on immigration, Trump's engagement with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the decision to prioritize the resettlement in the U.S. of white South Africans versus refugees from elsewhere. Here's Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen: "And while you've turned away from a genocide in Sudan and invented one in South Africa, you teamed up with President Trump to throw the Ukrainian people under the bus and have been played like a fiddle by Vladimir Putin. And I have to tell you directly and personally, that I regret voting for you for Secretary of State."

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