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U.S. leadership is needed to address humanitarian crises elsewhere around the world, including in Sudan, Haiti. We’ve seen millions of people in many other places displaced and killed. We have to focus – and we are – on them. And also to address, as many of you have said, the global issues that no one country can solve alone, whether that’s food security, changing climate, transnational corruption, the fentanyl crisis. AUDIENCE MEMBER: The lies, greed, and hypocrisy of — SECURITY: This is your warning. This is your warning right now. AUDIENCE MEMBER: — our democracy have been exposed. Free Palestine to free us all. SECURITY: Okay, you are placed under arrest for (inaudible) conduct. CHAIRMAN DIAZ-BALART: Mr. Secretary — AUDIENCE MEMBER: Free Palestine to free us all. All liberation struggles are connected. You should be arresting Blinken, not me. You should be arresting Blinken, not me. CHAIRMAN DIAZ-BALART: We will not have disturbances in this committee. Mr. Secretary. SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. But with the support of Congress, we can and we are approaching these challenges from a position of strength. Because of the actions we’ve taken, the United States is stronger economically, militarily, diplomatically than we were a few years ago. https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-opening-remarks-before-the-house-committee-on-appropriations-subcommittee-on-state-foreign-operations-and-related-programs-on-the-fy25-department-of-state-budget-request/