Samantha Power: “We, the United States, with very strong support--bipartisan support up here--have purchased a billion Pfizer vaccines.”

USAID has not authorized gain of function research.

I think we are, you know, spending somewhere around $250 million in, I think, we have 80,000 females that we have brought into mediation roles, peace building roles, you know, through that programming.

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

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