04/26/2017
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"Will it have an adverse impact on the work we are doing in the region, the partnerships that we are building?"
"I think it is important to push back on this notion of indifference in our foreign policy."
"And it will be a negative impact? When there is a nearly 40-percent cut, that would not advance the national security interest of the United States, in your opinion?"
"What really struck me at the time was the central importance to each of these countries that the U.S. continue to support their democracies."