Brian Schatz: “The proposal calls for steep cuts to lifesaving assistance and critical efforts that advance American interests around…”

Our bill will provide federal workers with 12 weeks of paid leave, giving them the time they need to take care of their own health and their loved ones.

We are the good guys. And when a batch of aid – medicine or communications infrastructure or food – arrives with that little patch with the United States of America on it, people go, 'Help is on the way. The good guys are here.'

These are things in statutory law. This is not the Ford Foundation where they say, 'Well, we've changed our grant criteria.' This is a matter of federal law, and they have to follow it.

People were pretty thrilled about the idea that America First, in their mind, meant that we were going to not do this kind of adventurism.