Massive 2028 Presidential Update Amid Vance-Rubio Ticket

The State Department has not held an on-camera briefing since August, though Rubio has taken questions from reporters in other settings.

He last briefed State Department reporters in December, answering questions from across the press corps and continuing to engage with the traveling pool.

May 1 marked Rubio’s first anniversary as national security adviser, making him the first person to hold both that role and secretary of state simultaneously since Henry Kissinger during the Richard Nixon administration.

On Iran, Rubio echoed Trump’s earlier claim that the War Powers Act is “unconstitutional.”

The Vietnam-era law requires presidents to seek congressional approval within 60 days of initiating military operations, but nearly all presidents since the law was passed in 1973 have considered it an unlawful infringement on their roles as commander-in-chief.