This is devastating, and it is ceding the field as well to the people's Republic of China, to the Russian Federation and other malign actors who would like nothing more than to see the US' ground game in American foreign policy -- the face of American values disappear like this and that's what the Trump administration --
Samantha Power discusses the implications of the Trump administration's cuts to USAID staff and its impact on U.S. foreign policy.
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Under President Biden's leadership and in partnership with this Committee, we are building on that remarkable legacy.
We have no evidence that USAID has funded gain of function research, and we certainly have not authorized gain of function research.
In Ukraine, for example, USAID has helped farmers withstand Putin's attempts to destroy the agricultural sector.
Fundamentally, there has to be a political agreement. We are not going to humanitarian aid our way out of this humanitarian crisis.