No. And I thank the Democratic leader for his leadership on this. I will just say, I think the idea of getting rid of USAID is a radical one and a wrong one, but that is actually not what we are arguing about. They stormed into the offices and purged the staff and took over the servers and, we do think, entered the SCIFs. I mean, this is the kind of thing that, if you read about it in the newspaper, it would sound like it was in a country that was falling apart.
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