Thank you, Madam Chairwoman and the full subcommittee, for your ongoing support over many years of America's leadership in the fight to end the world's deadliest epidemics.

By law, we can only provide 33 percent of total Global Fund resources leveraging commitments from other donors.

Together, the requested funding level and the report language will send an unequivocal message to other donors that the U.S. will maintain its leadership on the Global Fund.

We recommend the subcommittee ask agencies to annual report on their collective frontline health workforce pre-service, education, recruitment, training, retention, connectivity, and safety efforts

The democratic response to state-sponsored information warfare must be rooted in democratic principles of transparency, accountability, and integrity.

What we need is a whole-of-society approach that includes stakeholders from the private sector, independent media, and civil society.

President Vladimir Putin's Russia seeks to weaken Western governments and transatlantic institutions, discredit democratic values, and create a post-truth world.

I am urging you, I am begging you to please do an analysis of how this gag rule is affecting healthcare around the world because you and I both agree that when women succeed, the world succeeds.

Mrs. Lowey, we are grateful for your support of our work, and we value your oversight role and your advice here today.

To say this. Some of things we agree. I mean, I don't believe in forced abortions, Okay? But I don't believe in forcing women to have children if they don't want to have children.

I believe you proposed about one-third of the U.S. assistance to Western Hemisphere countries be cut.