the budget request would, if it were honored as it is requested by the administration, would effectively be $161 million cut over Fiscal Year numbers.

Economic development, education, and good governance programs are critical to stabilize just all the region.

So, to confirm, we, the United States of America, submitted the goals that we thought were appropriate for us and the goals that we wanted to, to achieve into the future.

It is absolutely critical to our national security and economic future that the United States not cede control over the infrastructure required for 5G.

5G represents to me one of the big challenges that the United States faces with its competition with China.

So much of our national security relies on global telecommunications infrastructure, including military systems, diplomatic channels, intelligence reporting...

I think that is to our future detriment.

the risks that we are taking are the continued license for China, Russia, and other great powers of this age to meddle further in our own American interests.

I would urge you, in your conversations with the President, for him to potentially speak more respectfully of the life-risking work that so many of our intelligence community members pursue.

The IC will continue to speak truth to power, even when the power ignores that truth.

If you do not have a conversation between the two most important alliance leaders on trade, then you get into situations, very unfortunate, where we are threatening a trade war.