Marco Rubio has been sworn in to be Donald Trump's new secretary of state, and another familiar Florida name has joined the Senate in his place.

Moody, a Republican from Plant City who was in her second term as Attorney General when Gov. Ron DeSantis picked her to replace Secretary of State Marco Rubio, is on five panels, where her previous roles will inform her legislative work. Her experience as a jurist will surely come into play on the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

DeSantis announced he is appointing Ashley Moody to replace Rubio, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of State.

Hours before she will be sworn in to replace newly minted Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the popular Plant City Republican told a national audience about her whirlwind ascent to federal office, and how she will help the Donald Trump administration actualize its mandate.

President Donald Trump plans Wednesday to sign into law the Laken Riley Act, the first legislation to get his signature since his return to the White House. The bill, named in memory of a nursing student killed by an undocumented immigrant in Georgia,

Donald Trump didn’t land a Senate seat for his daughter-in-law. But he has nothing to complain about in Gov. Ron DeSantis’ choice of Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody. Her credentials as a full-bore MAGA Trump loyalist are impeccable. She signed on ...

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that Ashley Moody, the state's attorney general, will replace Marco Rubio in the Senate.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that state Attorney General Ashley Moody will be taking Marco Rubio’s place as the Sunshine State’s junior senator. DeSantis announced his pick at a news conference in Orlando days before Rubio is set to resign to become President-elect Donald Trump’s secretary of state.

(AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to be the state’s next U.S. senator. The announcement comes after President-elect Donald Trump nominated U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida’s senior senator since 2010 ...

Former U.S. senator from Florida Marco Rubio jumps into new role as secretary of state with flurry of phone calls, planned trip to Panama.

Neither Lara Trump nor Vivek Ramaswamy will join the Senate. But it’s likely the president-elect didn’t really go to the mat for their appointments.