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What Trump’s emerging foreign policy team tells us about his agenda

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Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Michael Waltz are seen as hawkish lawmakers who, on paper, are n’t wholly aligned with Trump ’s “ America First ” brand.

Their anticipated ascension spurred disquiet in some corners of Trumpworld , where many want to turn the page on an era of Republican foreign policy dominated by trigger-happy neoconservatives.

Ruben Navarrette : Rubio and Waltz 's potential appointments are the clearest indication of the direction of Trump 's foreign policy.

He says the picks may foreshadow clashes between Trump and his aides that dominated his first term in office.

But, as foreign observers of Washington already know, Trump ’s erratic nature and temperament may once more be a defining theme of his presidency.