Antony Blinken: “The budget will help us push back on advancing authoritarianism and democratic backsliding by strengthening democracies…”

We are working to do that. Obviously, in the countries that have been on the receiving end of coups, there are some limits that we have to abide by.

We have managed to move to a better trajectory politically to get back to a clearly mandated democratic government.

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…

There is no question that countries around the world prefer to work with us.