Sam Brownback: “USAID should fund directly to independent religious organizations to do the good work that they have been doing.”

Promotion of international religious freedom is in our national interest, and it directly supports national security priorities including the defeat of ISIS and other violent extremist groups.

We have to get more focus on this by a broader cross-section, or we will not be effective in this.

The beauty of what this job has been I think under the prior administration and this one is that there are contentious issues that people do not agree upon.

I think we should accept people that are fleeing religious persecution.