introduced the new secretary. Mr. Rubio thanked the many diplomats working overseas, then laid out Mr. Trump’s foreign policy goal: “That mission is to ensure that our foreign policy is ...

For most of American history, the secretary of state has been the dominant shaper of American foreign policy. Those days are over. We are in the age of the incredible shrinking secretary of state.

The directive follows President Donald Trump’s executive order Monday pausing new obligations and disbursements of foreign ...