{"id":232463,"date":"2026-02-06T16:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T12:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=232463"},"modified":"2026-02-06T17:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:46:14","slug":"marco-rubio-steps-down-as-acting-director-of-us-national-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/232463\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Rubio steps down as acting director of US National Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>US Secretary of State and national security adviser Marco Rubio is no longer the acting archivist of the United States, a spokesman of the National Archives and Records Administration said on Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/marco-rubio-steps-down-acting-head-us-national-archives-2026-02-05\/?link_source=ta_first_comment&amp;taid=6985ce876c21030001a46181&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawPyu9NleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFlekFSMGtlRTdrY29oY2Voc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHmTQw57w2Zg2MkjgyestUHMEXQDIqciCthUHCrUGNbOtean1v8NOluTfH6aQ_aem_i7M7MPBb6AQE5lkwFRyB8w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>Within weeks of taking office last year, Trump fired then-U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan and appointed Rubio as acting head of the archives, one of many hats he has worn in the administration.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio stepped back from the National Archives job in compliance with the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, which limits how long officials can serve in Senate-confirmed roles in an acting capacity.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State and national security adviser Marco Rubio is no longer the acting archivist of the United States, a spokesman of the National Archives and Records Administration said on Thursday, Reuters writes. Within weeks of taking office last year, Trump fired then-U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan and appointed Rubio as acting head of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":229846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232464,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232463\/revisions\/232464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}