Eliot Engel actually said...

You can't cut back, in my opinion, at the rate that the administration has announced it would like to and have an effective workforce.

You cannot pick up a newspaper these days without seeing a headline about how Secretary Tillerson is hollowing out the State Department.

I am very troubled by the redesign. I am worried that the redesign will be used as an excuse to cut back.

I am concerned about the imbalance between military and the non-military approaches to countering terrorism in sub-Saharan Africa.