The administration was not trying to be disruptive to people’s personal lives, but that the directive was the only way we’ve been able to get cooperation from USAID.

This is not about ending foreign aid. It is about structuring it in a way that furthers the national interest of the United States.

This is a great step forward.

As a result, we’ve let problems fester, missed opportunities, and neglected partners. That ends now.

For many reasons, US foreign policy has long focused on other regions while overlooking our own. That ends now.

The United States has a treaty obligation to protect the Panama Canal if it comes under attack.

It would be a very generous plan for the U.S. to help rebuild Gaza.

I find it absurd that we would have to pay fees to transit a zone that we are obligated to protect in a time of conflict.

If we're going to reduce the size of this particular agency, we want to reduce the budget, merge it under the State Department, allow it to be under the purview of Secretary Marco Rubio, and then go from there.

We’re not trying to — we’re not being punitive here, but this is the only way we’ve been able to get cooperation from USAID.

The future of Haiti belongs to the people of Haiti.

The message is that when there are sanctions because they are violating human rights, they are violating a whole series of things, travelling to Iran, helping countries that really wish harm to the United States.