Political heavyweight Pete Buttigieg predicted that Marco Rubio is never going to recover from "selling his soul" for one lie.
During an interview on The BulwarkPodcast with former GOP operative Tim Miller, Buttigieg talked about how much Rubio has fallen in his eyes since becoming Trump's secretary of state.
When Miller asked how Rubio has been doing, Buttigieg said, "If he hadn't asked for it, I would feel sorry for him," but criticized Rubio for testimony he gave before Congress in May 2025. Rubio claimed that no children had died as a result of the Trump administration's foreign aid cuts, Buttigieg said.
"When Marco Rubio lied to Congress about whether the aid cuts had killed children, when he stood there with a straight face and said no children died over this, when we already knew the names of some of the children who had been killed by this," Buttigieg said.
"Right then, you could just tell that this guy's just morally — and I hope politically — never going to recover from selling his soul," Buttigieg continued.
Miller mentioned that the new book Regime Change revealed that Rubio was "supposed to be the normal, responsible adult in the administration." However, Rubio was "the point man" for cutting a deal with El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to receive immigrants deported from the U.S., Miller said.
"You're going to have a gulag essentially in El Salvador," Miller said, summing up what Rubio negotiated. "We're going to send these people. We were sending innocent people there, and it was absolutely, I think, the most outrageous thing the administration has done."