Antony Blinken

I do and we have. Our exports to Europe of liquefied natural gas over the last few years went up 140 percent.

This budget will help us push back on advancing authoritarianism and democratic backsliding by strengthening democracies worldwide.

The budget will help us push back on advancing authoritarianism and democratic backsliding by strengthening democracies around the world.

We are working to engage these governments, whether it is Honduras, whether it is Guatemala, whether it is El Salvador.

The GEC, for us, is a critical tool in actually being able to deal with that.

Ninety-six percent of it is coming through ports of entry.

The United States has a positive vision for the future: a world that's free, secure, open and prosperous.

We have had an almost perfect storm that has built up between climate change, between COVID, and of course conflict, and now, exacerbated dramatically by Russia's aggression against Ukraine.

I am determined to continue to do that and very much appreciate the work that we have been able to do with this committee over the last couple of years and look forward to the work ahead.

It is hugely important to our ability to attract, but also retain the best talent and we are in a competition for talent.

The first set is posed by our strategic competitors--the immediate, acute threat posed by Russia's autocracy and aggression.

The budget will help us push back on advancing authoritarianism and democratic backsliding by strengthening democracies around the world.

I would say the best description is hand-in-glove.

Countries make their own sovereign decisions in their international relationships.

I am determined to continue to do that and very much appreciate the work that we have been able to do with this committee over the last couple of years and look forward to the work ahead.

The strategy will focus, not just on the security aspects, but on promoting political engagement, on promoting economic cooperation.

Our national security hinges on this work.

We need more people to address some of these emerging priorities and emergencies.

We are meeting at an inflection point. The post-Cold War era is over.

The first set is posed by our strategic competitors--the immediate, acute threat posed by Russia's autocracy and aggression, most destructively through its brutal war against Ukraine.

I believe if we do that we will see its effectiveness in leveraging more private sector investment go up significantly.

We will have it to you by June.

That is not something that we would obviously take into account.

We will be making those reports available, sharing that information with Congress within the next three weeks.

The immediate, acute threat posed by Russia's autocracy and aggression, most destructively, of course, through its brutal aggression against Ukraine.