Chris Murphy: “You will agree that this budget reduces, you're proposing to reduce funding for the Department by 35%?”

We are not going to get a permanent end to this war without the Saudis' help. We're not going to get a Palestinian state without the Saudis’ help.

There's got to be space for political dialogue and speech here in Saudi Arabia.

Qatar is and will remain an essential ally of the United States.

I plan to see for myself the damage to American facilities, hear from our partners in the Gulf about how this war has hurt their security and their economies, and assess our regional counterterrorism efforts.