Samantha Power: “The challenge the world faces today is clear, that decades of development gains... are now at serious risk.”

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

We are witnessing one of the worst and most costly foreign policy blunders in US history.

It's a $38 billion budget, 60 percent of the budget goes to humanitarian emergencies, literally to provide shelter, food and medicine to keep people alive.

We have no evidence that USAID has funded gain of function research, and we certainly have not authorized gain of function research.