Jeanne Shaheen: “I do have some concerns that it not be used as an excuse to further reduce defense spending among our NATO allies.”

The cost of [the] United States response is approaching $1 billion," they wrote. "Investment now in voluntary family planning is fiscally rational in addition to being morally urgent."

We want to do everything possible to try and get them to the table.

“This is our best opportunity to support Ukraine. We are defending not just their country but the rest of Europe from an increasingly aggressive Russia.”

Congress expects the State Department to invest resources to advance human rights, democratic institutions, civil society, freedom of expression and worker rights.