We need to keep up this momentum. That requires a State Department budget that we fully resource.
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We are also asking Congress to fully fund the State Department's educational and cultural exchanges.
Our investment abroad does not come at the expense of our strength at home. Far from it.
That is an enormous return on our investment and essential for competing with China around the world.
In an era of renewed great power competition we must present the strongest possible offer.
We have delivered essential American aid to Ukraine, and we have rallied the international community to share the burden with us.
The People's Republic of China is pursuing military, economic, and geopolitical preeminence, challenging our vision for a free, open, secure, and prosperous international order.
U.S. leadership is needed to address humanitarian crises elsewhere around the world including in Sudan and Haiti, where millions have been displaced and many killed, and to address global issues that no country can solve alone, including…
Russia is committing aggression not only against Ukraine but against the principles at the heart of the United Nations Charter--sovereignty, territorial integrity, independence--that are the building blocks for global peace and security.
In the Middle East, we are standing with Israel and its efforts to ensure that what happened on October 7 never happens again as we do everything we can to bring an end to the terrible human suffering in Gaza and prevent the conflict from…
Because of the actions we have taken the United States is stronger economically, diplomatically, and militarily than we were 3 years ago.
A prime example of the Trump Administration's efforts to attack the Federal workforce was the 2019 effort to relocate hundreds of Department of Agriculture employees.
Federal employees are the backbone of our government and the driving force behind the programs and services Americans depend on.
We have offered them nothing not to invade Rafah except a plan to deal more effectively with Rafah.
That is, again, totally misleading and wrong.
We see the extraordinary positive potential in Africa, not just the challenges of the moment
We have done and we will continue to do everything we can to, if we can do it, develop the information and share the information.
First of all, no one has done more to defend Israel than Joe Biden.