this started as one of the world's poorest countries, and it has descended into what is really now the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

If we really want to address the root causes of migration we must recognize the main drivers.

We have donated hundreds of millions of doses of vaccine to dozens and dozens of countries.

this pandemic is far from over with us

What advice would you give the Administration? What advice would you suggest we give the Administration as to how to push that $3.5 billion?

We need to track this virus, we need to vaccinate the world, we need to diagnose and treat patients quickly.

Worse still, they use migration in the same way that they use food and access to basic services, as a political tool to manipulate the population.

We should also be concerned, even alarmed, about the widening food security crisis that this needless and brutal war by Russia is causing for hundreds of millions far beyond Eastern Europe.

the President's request initially included about $1.8 billion for food aid, which in my view, fell far short of what is urgently needed.

I think that whatever we do to ensure effectiveness and efficiencies, the private sector is critical.

I have never been this confident that we can actually reach zero hunger, but it will have to be done via a structural approach, not just only giving food away.

We can't afford NOT to spend at least $5 billion--and ideally more--to help facilitate global vaccination.

We need to move swiftly. We need to be flexible in how we deliver this aid.

Senator Graham and I have both called for at least $5 billion.

We have got to move fast. And I think that is critical to stabilize the countries that we are concerned are at risk.

I look forward to working tirelessly with each of you and with my colleagues to ensure that we do in fact advance this desperately needed appropriation to ensure that the world is safer from this pandemic.

Russia is using hunger as a weapon of war, and Congress is on record kind of condemning the use of hunger as a weapon of war through the recently introduced House Resolution 922.

the total number of people hungry has increased to 273 million, more than doubling the number living in hunger in 2019