BERLIN — U.S. Sen. John McCain is urging President Trump to nominate a team of senior officials at the State Department to back up new Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, spoke Saturday during an event in Brussels. He pointed to "confusion" over whether Tillerson would attend a meeting of NATO foreign ministers. The State Department now says Tillerson will travel to NATO in Brussels next Friday. The brief stop will come after Tillerson travels to Ankara, Turkey, to meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
McCain said one aspect of that was that Tillerson "doesn't have a team there at the State Department. And I think it's incumbent for the president and the administration to get people nominated and confirmed."
The Arizona Republican added during a news conference at the German Marshall Fund's Brussels Forum that he expected "that would be a rapid process."
