John Cornyn: “under the misguided leadership of the Biden administration, our credibility--America's credibility--on the world stage…”

“under the misguided leadership of the Biden administration, our credibility--America's credibility--on the world stage has crumbled. Simply put, our friends no longer trust us, and our enemies no longer fear us. The Biden administration's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan signaled to our adversaries and our allies alike that the United States could not be trusted. With deterrence a mere memory, this gave the green light to Vladimir Putin to continue his ambitions in Ukraine and launch a full-scale invasion after invading Crimea in 2014. This administration took it a step further, though, unfreezing billions of dollars in Iranian assets and allowing Tehran to pour even more money behind the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Shia militias, its terrorist proxies operating throughout the Middle East. Of course, the administration did this with full knowledge of Iran's nuclear ambitions. But they didn't stop there. By removing the designation of the Iranian-backed Houthis as a terrorist group--a decision which the President later only partially reversed--President Biden practically invited them to start attacking international commerce in the Red Sea. The dominoes were set, and now we are seeing them fall. Iran and its proxies have been emboldened and launched the most deadly terrorist attack on the people of Israel on October 7.…”