I want to compliment you today that we have two women on a panel.

The time for atonement and recompense is at hand.

I just think we have the power of the purse here and they can take it or leave it.

I think this notion of if we would just spend more on defense and less on diplomacy and development misses the mark, significantly.

The Chinese Communist Party poses a generational threat to the United States of America.

These cuts will damage U.S. economic competitiveness.

It's probably the most depressing thing to see women who have never lived under Sharia law now subjected to this depravity.

We would like to have some assurance--we're a very generous, generous nation--with money going in that is not going directly to the Taliban but, rather, to where it needs to go and I would say primarily the women and the girls left behind.

The Biden Administration's chaotic and deadly withdrawal left a moral stain on this country and created a massive humanitarian crisis.

We do not have another alternative. But and if we're not there on the field China will fill that void.

I just personally want to thank you for your service to our country from both sides of the aisle.

I worry not only about the American citizens still left behind, the Afghan partners left behind, the interpreters that are now being hunted down by the Taliban.

I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle not to allow this short-sighted and perilous Republican budget proposal to take us backward.

I just think we're shooting ourselves in the foot with these kinds of cuts, especially if on a bipartisan basis, as we have expressed, we're concerned about growing Chinese influence.

I think it's critical that USAID have a cohesive strategy to grow America's soft influence while using U.S. taxpayer money effectively and as efficiently as possible.

The consequence would be scores of lives lost, mass migration, and a vacuum where terrorists thrive.

In short, our foreign aid must serve as a clear alternative to the CCP and our adversaries while also saving lives and projecting U.S. global leadership around the world.

They did not have the authority, and it is not going to stand.