Bipartisan support for these efforts makes Americans safer and more prosperous and provides a critical foundation for American influence and leadership.

We have a compelling interest, we, the United States, the world, Israel, Gaza, Palestine, to avert this widening humanitarian catastrophe.

But this should not be a war against Gazans or Palestinians. It should be a war against Hamas.

I do applaud President Biden in his conversations last week with Prime Minister Netanyahu subsequently.

Putin's unjustified war continues to cause catastrophic loss of life and has undermined the security of Europe and the global economy.

We have a compelling interest, we, the United States, the world, Israel, Gaza, Palestine, to avert this widening humanitarian catastrophe.

Gazans are suffering under Hamas not--they are not all Hamas.

I have made clear to the administration that it needs to incorporate funds for Ukraine into the base budget accompanied by a comprehensive strategy.

The PRC's global lending spree has made it now, and this really bears repeating, the world's largest debt collector.

I asked Secretary Austin yesterday at an Armed Services Committee hearing whether growing famine or medical catastrophe in Gaza would escalate violence in the region, and he said absolutely it would.

In Ukraine, USAID has helped farmers withstand Putin's attempts to destroy the agricultural sector.

We need American leadership to advance models of development and governance that honor freedom, transparency, and dignity.

Bipartisan support for these efforts makes Americans safer and more prosperous and provides a critical foundation for American influence and leadership.

The Biden-Harris administration's fiscal year 2025 request of $28.3 billion for USAID's fully and partially managed accounts would give us the resources to continue that leadership.

We have a right to criticize when there is evidence of wrongdoing.

We know we have to do more on the humanitarian front, and that requires U.S. leadership and U.S. dollars.

It is rich to hear this come from the other side.

If the national security supplemental were not to pass... you would be seeing in this year an increase of, roughly, 40 percent in humanitarian need.