Samantha Power: “USAID has not authorized gain of function research.”

The U.S. is giving more than $100 million to support the over one million people displaced by the war across Sudan and in neighboring countries.

I think we are, you know, spending somewhere around $250 million in, I think, we have 80,000 females that we have brought into mediation roles, peace building roles, you know, through that programming.

This is devastating, and it is ceding the field as well to the people's Republic of China, to the Russian Federation and other malign actors who would like nothing more than to see the US' ground game in American foreign policy -- the face…

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