Senior Official for Public Diplomacy

Congratulations to the 2025-2026 @StateDept Gilman and Critical Language Scholarship Alumni Ambassadors. Delighted to address our alumni, whose expertise will continue to bolster American competitiveness and national security for years to come.

President Trump sent a letter imposing long-overdue consequences on de Moraes' supreme court and Lula's government for their attacks on Jair Bolsonaro, freedom of expression, and American trade. Such attacks are a disgrace and fall well below the dignity of Brazil's democratic…

Congratulations to the 2025 Pulitzer Prize-winning @StateDept Exchange Alumni! Your remarkable achievements showcase how exchange programs nurture American excellence by empowering leaders to think globally and create meaningful impact both at home and abroad.

A big shout-out to our friends at @USA_Pavilion_ for hosting DCM Snipe at @expo2025japan. Commissioner General Ambassador Grayson and his team have put together a beautiful pavilion that showcases the best of American excellence and innovation.

America First has never meant America alone. Diplomacy played an important role in securing our nation’s independence – and it's key to striking mutually beneficial deals around the world today. More on the role of diplomacy in the American Revolution: share.america.gov/how-the-us-for…

Today marks the first day of the State Department's America First foreign assistance rebranding initiative, led by @SecRubio. Consistent branding will ensure contributions made by the the United States will be immediately recognized as American. "The redesign is very simple,…

The new @StateDept America First branding policy is an essential step to recentering and re-anchoring the Department’s visual identity in the great American flag. Impactful contributions will now be distinguished by our most cherished and majestic symbol: 🇺🇸…

As a @StateIVLP alumnus, President-elect @NawrockiKn embodies the enduring impact of international exchanges. Under his and @POTUS's leadership, our nations’ people-to-people ties will only grow stronger.

Congratulations to President-elect @NawrockiKn on a hard-earned victory as a new chapter begins in Poland. Together, the United States and Poland will forge the most ambitious alliance in our shared history on defense, energy, and commerce.

For 25 years, the U.S. and Italy have worked together to protect humanity’s heritage – a collaboration aided by a landmark cultural property agreement that facilitates returns, encourages sharing of iconic artifacts, supports American research and thwarts antiquities traffickers.…

The reorganization plan for the State Department will result in a more agile Department, better equipped to promote America's interests, and keep Americans safe across the world.

“The suppression of speech, facilitation of mass migration, targeting of religious expression, and undermining of electoral choice threatens the very foundation of the transatlantic partnership.” — @StateDRL's Samuel Samson shares more, in our Substack. statedept.substack.com/p/the-need-for…

Foreign actors who engage in extraterritorial censorship on US soil---be warned.

For too long, Americans have been fined, harassed, and even charged by foreign authorities for exercising their free speech rights. Today, I am announcing a new visa restriction policy that will apply to foreign officials and persons who are complicit in censoring Americans.…

🔥 @SecRubio COOKS Sen. @ChrisVanHollen for his El Salvador trip: "We deported gang members -- including the one you had a margarita with -- And that guy is a human trafficker and that guy is a gang banger."

“This notion that somehow we have to accept anyone who wants to come to the United States is absurd and no country in the world has an immigration policy like that.” — @SecRubio

Delighted to speak with visiting Global Sports Mentoring Program (GSMP) delegates, along with student-athletes from Syracuse University, about sports as a uniquely powerful foreign policy tool and how GSMP offers global lessons on the trailblazing Americans with Disabilities Act.

As @DeputySecState says, “When you have quality seeds, you can put them in foreign soil and they will blossom.” Afrikaner refugees, who are victims of genocidal persecution, are WELCOME!