If we pass this budget that the Republicans want to put before us today, the State Department will continue to be destroyed.
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Critiques proposed budget cuts that harm the State Department's effectiveness.
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Well, look, let's understand one thing. There's actually -- there's not a lot of questions about what Trump is trying to do. He's basically trying to give Ukraine to Putin, and he wants a better relationship with Russia, and he's willing…
That's exactly what Putin has been after from the beginning. And so many people have sort of helped him do that by claiming that, oh, Putin would have made peace if we had just said, Ukraine won't join NATO or any number of other things…
As I said in my oral testimony, and my written testimony, in broad strokes, it is enforcement.
They are sitting silently by while Trump betrays Ukraine and hands it to Putin.





