We are witnessing one of the worst and most costly foreign policy blunders in US history.
Samantha Power: “We are witnessing one of the worst and most costly foreign policy blunders in US history.”
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Power criticizes the dismantling of USAID as a significant foreign policy mistake.
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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.
Fundamentally, there has to be a political agreement. We are not going to humanitarian aid our way out of this humanitarian crisis.
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