Steve Russell: “If they were to fail, if the firewall in the sub-Saharan Africa were to break, it would have implications that we really…”

The more that we feed this narrative that our Nation does not have the will and the resolve to get things done is part of the problem.

Every time we have seen an abandonment or have cared to abandon places, and especially places like sub-Saharan Africa, where we have actually worked for decades, then we will see disease, we will see famine, we will see human suffering on…

The Department of Defense is the only agency ever in the United States Government that has never been audited.

I cannot be one of those today. I just cannot. There will be follow-on testimony that we will hear from our colleagues, and I respect that. But quitting is going to have disastrous effects.