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When the Trump administration came in and set up their first budget, they proposed slashing assistance to each of those three countries.

It was the first time I had focused on the need for in-country support, in-country assistance in these Triangle countries.

We have paralysis moving this funding through the Northern Triangle because people don't know what the president wants.

I don't know how that lesson is lost--it appears to me, honestly, Mr. Secretary, that it has been lost on the Palestinian community.

Now you are about to unveil a long-awaited peace agreement that you have drafted, no doubt with demands to follow, that the Palestinians be grateful for that plan and regard the U.S. as a fair-minded arbiter who respects their aspirations.

One of the guiding schools of thought on all sides I think, for years, has been the need for the U.S. to facilitate direct negotiations between the two parties.

And this is the path forward, you are confident, to totally marginalize and alienate the Palestinian side?

Our foreign policy and our immigration policy in recent years has focused on these countries by virtue of the migrant flows.

How could anyone think cutting off that aid is in this country's interest?

I am committed, just as you are, to making sure that we are preparing our workforce, particularly women, veterans, other minority groups, for the future jobs that are going to be out there.

I am optimistic that together we can do big things.

Today, we are here to discuss solutions for protecting our country's front-line caregivers from violence in the workplace.

I want to mention one other thing about that. One of the better things you all did regarding 1890s and the farm bill was to stop the rescission of the money that you are giving out there.

I also want to ask about your decision to appoint Naomi Earp as the Deputy Assistant Secretary.

Please elaborate on the agency's thinking on this rule, because through the USDA's February 1st SNAP Requirements for Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents proposed rulemaking, you seem to be ignoring the will of Congress.

I was proud to work with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to authorize at least three Centers of Excellence at 1890 land-grant universities in last year's farm bill.

Lost sales to China have caused producers in my State to lose $8 per hog, and collectively, an annualized loss of $1 billion.

I think we have bipartisan support in the room to agree that China is a strategic trading partner that plays by the rules when it behooves them, but otherwise ignores them.