Secretary of State Marco Rubio has sent an order to all U.S. diplomatic and consular posts instructing a pause on "all new obligations of funding, pending a review, for foreign assistance programs funded by or through the Department and USAID.

It is one of the first directives to be implemented after Trump signed a sweeping anti-trans executive order declaring only two sexes, male and female as assigned at birth.

Trans, intersex, and nonbinary people applying for passports will no longer be able to select an “X” marker for gender.

The directive comes days after Trump signed a sweeping executive order that there are only "two sexes" — and it's causing confusion and panic in the trans community.

Marco Rubio told State Department employees that changes under President Trump “are not meant to be destructive, they’re not meant to be punitive.”

The U.S. State Department moved swiftly Wednesday to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order doing away with DEI.

A sweeping executive order that President Donald Trump issued on Monday bans the State Department from issuing passports with “X” gender markers. Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken in June 2021 announced the State Department would begin to issue gender-neutral passports and documents for American citizens who were born overseas.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio shut down questions from NBC "Today" show host Craig Melvin about President Trump's decision to pardon Jan. 6 defendants.

The departure from the Biden administration’s approach to combatting so-called “disinformation” was one of several planned changes for the State Department outlined by Rubio, 53, in a cable sent

Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered a suspension of passport applications that use a gender-neutral marker or request a change in gender.

Like the Trump presidency, Rubio placed mass migration and border security at the top of his priorities list. Marco Rubio, Donald Trump’s newly-confirmed secretary of state, has assumed office with gusto,