00:00As the people have abandoned it, that means that in a world where you need to conduct real foreign policy in a mature and structured way, there are ways you're going to have to balance all these.
00:17Actually, Senator Rubio, we're making progress. There's protests in English now.
00:22Oh, remember that? Yeah. Remember last time.
00:24Some make all the sense in the world, and we wanted to pursue those programs.
00:30American flags is a sad commentary on the foreign assistance legacy for this administration.
00:39American flags coming down around the world. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
00:43Well, thank you, Senator Shaheen. Senator, or Secretary Rubio, there appears to be a modest disagreement in view of the condition today.
00:53It's your turn. Close the gap for us, please.
00:56Thank you. It's an honor to be here on behalf of the National Archives, and in addition to...
01:01We don't have time for you to listen.
01:03Okay, well, we'll focus on state today.
01:06I appreciate the opportunity to speak to you today.
01:08You know, when I came here four months ago, I told you that what I wanted was a State Department that was at the heart and soul of American foreign policy,
01:15that it was the single biggest driver both of action but also of ideas, and we're well on our way to achieving that.
01:22And the way we've... I'll talk about some of the individual things we've accomplished during that time,
01:26but first let me explain sort of some of the processes by which we seek to arrive at it.
01:29The first is a reorganization of the way the State Department functions,
01:33and we have sort of previewed that with the committee and many of the individual members.
01:38Obviously, we'll have to come... We've taken input and are taking input now through the notice process,
01:43and then we'll come back to you with a formal congressional notification once,
01:46but we are taking a lot of the input, both provided by individual members and your staff, but also from inside the building.
01:52But if I could simplify the goal as this, and that is...
01:55Yeah, all right. First...
01:57Stop the genocide.
02:01Carry on.
02:02The goal is to drive power and action in our agency to the regional bureaus and to our embassies.
02:10On everything we do, we want our foreign policy to be holistic.
02:13Because the people have abandoned it. That means that in a world where you need to conduct real foreign policy
02:18in a mature and structured way, there are ways you're going to have to balance all these...
02:22Stop it now!
02:24There's no more help!
02:26I can't believe I'm standing in the middle of it!
02:30Actually, Senator Rubio, we're making progress.
02:33There's protests in English now, so...
02:36Oh, remember that? Yeah.
02:37Remember last time.
02:38So, we have to understand, and that's why we think it's so important that our regional bureaus
02:43be at the core and at the heart of everything we do.
02:45And so we feel good about that part of it.
02:48By the same token, I think critical to this are some of the reforms we're trying to make to foreign aid.
02:52And I said, when I appeared before this committee, everything we do has to make us stronger, safer, or more prosperous.
02:57So we've undertaken a review of our foreign aid.
02:59And the reality is that there are many of these programs, they may have...
03:03Some are good programs.
03:04Some make all the sense in the world, and we wanted to pursue those programs.
03:11Some of these programs make all the sense in the world, but frankly, on the priority scale,
03:17perhaps other programs are more important.
03:19Others, frankly, made no sense at all.
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