Secretary of State Marco Rubio ended Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen’s career on Tuesday during a hearing on the State Department’s budget for 2026.
Rubio defended deporting dangerous criminal alien gang members to El Salvador and torched Van Hollen in the process.
“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,” Rubio said of Van Hollen’s pet Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
WATCH:
@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.” pic.twitter.com/zOIoxARDu5
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 20, 2025
Last month Van Hollen met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a wife beater and alleged MS-13 gang banger who was deported for illegally residing in Maryland – and YOU paid for his political stunt.
The corrupt Maryland Senator flew all the way to El Salvador for a photo op in his fight to smuggle deported MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the US.
“I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia,” Van Hollen said.
“I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home,” he added.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is now home in his native country of El Salvador and Van Hollen tried to actually take him out of his home country and smuggle him over the US border.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an El Salvadorian national who was illegally residing in Maryland. In 2019, an immigration judge ordered Abrego Garcia, an alleged member of the dangerous MS-13 gang, removed from the US. Additionally, an immigration appellate court also upheld the immigration judge’s decision. Abrego Garcia was given ‘due process.’
But this wasn’t good enough for Van Hollen. He traveled to El Salvador to sip margaritas with Abrego Garcia.
El Salvador’s Bukele mocked Van Hollen and posted of a photo of him enjoying margaritas with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
“Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the “death camps” & “torture”, now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador!” Bukele said on X.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the “death camps” & “torture”, now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador! pic.twitter.com/r6VWc6Fjtn
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) April 18, 2025
Van Hollen accused El Salvador’s government of planting the drinks.
“About Margaritagate, I don’t know if you guys are following this or not but President Bukele, after I met with Kilmar, did this tweet showing us at a table with these two glasses – so, here’s what happened…when I first sat down with Kilmar we had glasses of water on the table and as we were talking one of the government people came over and deposited two other glasses on the table with ice – and I don’t know if it’s salt or sugar around the top but they look like margaritas,” Van Hollen said accusing the El Salvadoran government of a conspiracy to frame him.
Van Hollen also got buried after he told Rubio he regrets voting for him for Secretary of State.
“I regret voting for you for Secretary of State,” Van Hollen said to Rubio.
Without skipping a beat, Rubio replied: “Your regret for voting for me confirms I’m doing a good job.”
Sen. @ChrisVanHollen: “I regret voting for you for Secretary of State.”@SecRubio: “Your regret for voting for me confirms I’m doing a good job.” pic.twitter.com/UDyiWr2U2c
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 20, 2025
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