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Next Week: Rubio Staff Hosts Mobile Office Hours

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) office will host in-person and virtual Mobile Office Hours next week to assist constituents with federal casework issues in their respective local communities. These office hours offer constituents who do not live close to one of...

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Rubio Habla en Maxima 92.5 de Tampa Bay

El senador estadounidense Marco Rubio (R-FL) habló con Nio Encendio de Maxima 92.5 de Tampa Bay, sobre cómo la inflación ha impactado a las familias, sobre las olas de migración ilegal, sobre el juicio político de Biden vs. el de Trump, sobre el canje de prisioneros...

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ICYMI: Rubio Joins All Things Considered

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) joined National Public Radio’s All Things Considered to discuss his plan to expand the child tax credit for working families. See below for the full transcript and listen to the edited interview here. On the connection between the child...

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St. Augustine Record: Rubio: Raising Debt Limit Would Be ‘Catastrophic’

Apr 28, 2011 | News

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said Wednesday that a proposal in Congress to raise the nation’s debt ceiling past $14.3 trillion would be “catastrophic.”

Rubio, speaking at the Council on Aging’s River House, told 400 supporters that the U.S. economy is no longer growing.

“Why? The national debt is casting a dark pall on our future,” he said. “Our government is spending about $1 trillion more than it takes in. People figure out pretty quickly that this is unsustainable.”

But there’s no “magic bullet” or single action to take, he said.

“There are a lot of things we can do,” he said. “First, we need to share with our creditors that we have a plan. We don’t know when, but the crisis will come. Our debt limit is $14.3 trillion. We’ll reach that before the end of June.” He said the government needs to borrow more money to pay the interest on what it has already borrowed.

“That’s like getting a second credit card to pay the interest on the first,” he said.

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