Samantha Power: “The fall of Afghanistan has been devastating to women's rights, girls' rights, the economy, the humanitarian welfare of…”

Under President Biden's leadership and in partnership with this Committee, we are building on that remarkable legacy.

We are witnessing one of the worst and most costly foreign policy blunders in US history.

We have no evidence that USAID has funded gain of function research, and we certainly have not authorized gain of function research.

Fundamentally, there has to be a political agreement. We are not going to humanitarian aid our way out of this humanitarian crisis.