Patty Murray voted to confirm Marco Rubio, 99-0. Four months later she told him what he had done was “outright illegal.”
- 20 JAN 2025VOTED
- 20 MAY 2025≠ SAID
≠ How she voted in January and what she said in May don’t match
1 · VOTED · 20 JAN 2025
| Nomination | Marco Rubio, Secretary of State |
|---|---|
| Question | On the Nomination (confirmation) |
| Result | Confirmed 99–0 |
| Murray | YEA |
| Her record | 1 Yea in 222 nominee roll calls, 119th Congress (213 Nay, 8 not voting) |
2 · ≠ SAID · 20 MAY 2025
“It has created chaos. It’s caused preventable deaths across the globe, and it has undermined American leadership. As ranking member Schatz noted, what you’ve done is outright illegal, a complete violation of bipartisan appropriation laws, the Impoundment Control Act, and the Anti-Deficiency Act.”
To Secretary Rubio at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing, about USAID and withheld funds.
DID THEY EXPLAIN? NOT THAT WE FOUND
We found no statement from them explaining this.
HOW WE CHECKED THIS
The vote and the 222-roll-call count were read on senate.gov on 21 Oct 2026. The quote was transcribed from the hearing video and cut at sentence boundaries. Every senator voting backed Rubio, and her criticism is of what he did as Secretary. Spot an error? Tell us, and we’ll correct it in public.