Yes, because we have appropriated the money, and we have directed the program to go forward.

if there's one area where you and I are in total agreement--total agreement--and that is that we care deeply about the integrity of the Justice Department.

I've never seen such attacks. And again, that's attacks against people in Democratic or a Republican administration.

This budget, if enacted, would degrade USAID's ability to carry out its mission.

We all agree with helping our partners become more self-reliant. But we also have a role.

The President's request for fiscal year 2019 is not the budget the United States needs to protect and promote our interests and influence abroad.

Not a day passes without President Trump using social media to vilify the press, undermine the independence of our justice system, and slander his opponents.

We have discussed the frustration we both share about the anti-competitive tactics used by brand drug companies to deny the sale of samples to generic manufacturers.

There is a glaring disconnect between this administration's policy documents and its budget.

This budget would erode decades of progress, including in increasing life expectancy and lifting people out of poverty in developing countries, and promoting democratic values and human rights around the world.

I know your job is to defend the administration's budget, but putting that aside, given China's expanding influence, the spread of extremism, and the scale of human displacement and misery today, how can we be sure that USAID is meeting…

I hope this Committee will stay united, as it was in fiscal year 2018, in opposing a return to isolationism and the abandonment of our country's reputation as a global leader for democratic values.

I also heard you looked into the Bien Hoa Airbase and the dioxin remediation project we are now embarking on.

Actions speaking louder than words is a cut of 50 percent. Which action are you speaking of?

Foreign assistance actually accounts for only a fraction of 1 percent of the Federal budget.

If all goes to hell in a hand basket in any number of these countries, we are going to spend a great deal more as American taxpayers to try to put it back together.

It is not a legitimate argument to say we cannot support foreign assistance because we have domestic needs here at home.

Unfortunately, those positive trends have been eclipsed by a rise in authoritarianism.