Taiwan is a reliable, likeminded, and democratic partner.

Keeping our promises to those who served alongside the U.S. remains an unwavering priority.

The Black Sea grain corridor has been a significant success, getting out about 24 million metric tons of grain from Ukraine.

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.

This budget will sustain our security, economic, energy, and humanitarian support for Ukraine to ensure President Putin's war remains a strategic failure.

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

I fully share your view that the DFC is a critical tool, one that I think we are using, increasingly, effectively.

We are looking at other places in the Pacific Islands, where we can make sure that we are present in ways that we haven't been in recent years.

I want to see us be able to reestablish an ongoing presence in Libya.

We need to see that, but we also want to see steps taken to put Tunisia fully back on the democratic path it was on.

Countries make their own sovereign decisions in their international relationships.

The budget will sustain our security, economic, energy, and humanitarian support for Ukraine to ensure that President Putin's war remains a strategic failure.