03/12/2019
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"If we're having cuts of the magnitude that I mentioned aren't we essentially putting the white flag up, you know, in our ability to counter China?"
"If we're not there and we're not competing they've got that arena all to themselves."
"Leader McCarthy's proposed 22 percent budget cut to reduce State Department and USAID funding... at a time when historically so much is at stake right now in terms of democracy, security here at home ..."
"A cut of that size would have enormous impact on our ability to even compete with China in that front."