Rubio is one of Trump’s top picks — and this week, he showed exactly why

In a recent interview, when asked who might succeed him, President Trump named both JD Vance and Marco Rubio. It’s no surprise — the Floridian’s political skill has been solving major headaches for the administration. Just last week, Secretary Rubio’s swift action regarding Chevron’s license to import Venezuelan oil helped prevent a political setback that could have derailed the “Big, Beautiful Bill.”

The secretary of state saved President Trump's megaproject and has dealt a hard blow to Venezuela's tyranny, stopping the flow of billions of dollars to a regime that finances criminal groups such as Tren de Aragua and uses them as a tool of asymmetric warfare to destabilize this country.

Some very relevant figures of the MAGA movement were pushing for the renewal of Chevron's license to import oil from Venezuela. As revealed by the New York Post, special envoy Ric Grenell even traveled to Antigua in a private jet, and secured the release of an American kidnapped by Nicolas Maduro's regime, and tried to use that achievement to impress the president and achieve a win for Chevron. He did not succeed.

Secretary Rubio, who knows Latin America like no other secretary of state in history, stepped in to prevent what would have been a colossal mistake. President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" is critical to fulfilling campaign promises and also securing government funding. Had Grenell succeeded in impressing Trump and extending the license to Chevron, Trump's bill probably would not have passed in the House.

Three Republican, Cuban-American congressmen, who are well aware of the situation in Venezuela and how counterproductive it is for the United States to strengthen Venezuelan tyranny through Chevron's money, would probably have voted against the bill if the license had been extended. According to a report by Axios, in the first vote, the congressmen had already made it clear that their support depended on the license's non-renewal.

It is no exaggeration to say that Secretary Rubio saved the "big, beautiful bill" when he posted on his personal account hours before the House vote that Chevron's license would indeed come to an end on May 27. Now that's putting America first, instead of Chevron first!

In addition to that great achievement, not renewing Chevron's license means dealing a significant blow to a tyranny that is an enemy of the United States. The socialist tyranny of Venezuela receives about 400 million dollars a month from Chevron's business.

The truth is that if anyone knows the problem of China's expansion in the region well, it is Secretary Rubio, who has been warning about it for years, and who, as a good connoisseur of the subject, knows that the solution is not to reward the Venezuelan regime with billions of dollars, but the opposite: to impose sanctions.

Secretary Rubio has earned President Trump's trust, and it is increasingly clear why.