In response to prepared remarks delivered by Secretary of State John Kerry at the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations today, Truman Project and CNP Vice President of Strategic Communications Dave Solimini released the following statement.
“We face tremendous foreign policy and national security challenges worldwide from helping countries manage peaceful, democratic transitions to responding to humanitarian and natural disasters. For the United States to continue to be a global leader, we need both our military and our international development programs to be strong. A muscular State Department makes us and the world safer and more stable, by ensuring that threats stay small and far away.”
“The current crisis in Ukraine shows just how essential the non-military tools of American power are. We can’t prevent the crises of the future without a well-funded State Department.”
