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

Taiwan is a reliable, likeminded, and democratic partner.

The Taliban is taking steps that are digging an even deeper hole for the people of Afghanistan.

However, we do not support the expansion or the alteration of the veto.

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.

We are expanding our presence in critical regions like the Indo-Pacific and we are leading unprecedented coalitions to confront aggression and address humanitarian crises around the world.

We have worked very closely together in building out the Abraham Accords.

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

We may not be able to match China person for person, but we are going to be engaged in ways that we have not been.

We have an obligation to make sure that the taxpayers' money is being used the way it was intended to be used.

Countries make their own sovereign decisions in their international relationships.

the DFC is a critical tool, one that I think we are using, increasingly, effectively