Sara Jacobs: “Mr. Johnson had put his personal beliefs over the needs of service members, and that she was disappointed that the…”

When Republicans passed the Big Ugly Bill and cut funding for healthcare, they literally signed away millions of Americans’ ability to afford health insurance. And now it’s happening.

The fact of the matter is, we should have the same standards across the board, and we should have clear indicators to measure them and help countries see that they can get more things if they improve their governance.

In many cases, if you’re just supporting the military without doing the rest of the governance approach, you’re actually setting the conditions that make a coup more likely, not the opposite.

And that was a strategic mistake because when U.S. arms fall into the wrong hands, when militaries that we’re training, or are seen as assisting, commit abuses, that actually hurts our own interests and relationships with local populations.