| Senate confirms former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson as secretary of state |
Rex Tillerson won confirmation Wednesday to become secretary of state, placing a lifelong oil company executive at the helm off what President Trump has promised will be an “America first” foreign policy.
Tillerson takes office after a chaotic first few weeks for the Trump administration that saw big swings away from the national security and foreign policy policies in place under the Obama administration.
The State Department he now heads has a central role in refugee resettlement and other immigration and travel-related policies now at issue in a White House order suspending the admission of refugees and restricting entry for citizens from several Muslim-majority nations. |
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