Samantha Power: “For the first time in decades, human life expectancy is on the decline-- while extreme poverty is on the rise.”

In Ukraine, for example, USAID has helped farmers withstand Putin's attempts to destroy the agricultural sector.

the pushback shows the strength of civil society and the citizen power in Georgia to chart its own course or to fulfill its own democratic aspirations.

Fundamentally, there has to be a political agreement. We are not going to humanitarian aid our way out of this humanitarian crisis.

USAID has not authorized gain of function research.