Samantha Power: “If confirmed, I will seek to increase, in scale and effectiveness, USAID's investments in democracy and governance…”

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

USAID has not authorized gain of function research.

At the same time, democracies everywhere are under attack.

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