We are engaged in a competition.

We fundamentally elevated the Pacific Island countries in our foreign policy and in our diplomacy.

Our long-term geostrategic challenge is China.

This budget will help us continue the fight against HIV/AIDS, while advancing health security more broadly.

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.

Isn't it time for us to view the world through the lens, frankly, of the beginnings, the early stages of a geopolitical conflict?

If we are going to achieve our national security objective, it is critical to ensure our diplomatic corps is putting the right people with the right tools, and the right resources, and training in the right places to carry out their work.

I am committed and determined to make that information available to Congress.

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

We can't do more with less. We must increase our investments in our diplomatic and development tools if we want to strengthen our national security.

We continue to work closely with our European and Gulf partners.

I think it is a very mixed report, but what is important about it is, it continues to put a spotlight on these challenges.