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Secretary of State Antony Blinken is slated to testify Tuesday on his department’s activities, including U.S. diplomacy, global challenges and the 2025 budget request before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony Blinken fended off a sweeping attack on President Joe Biden's approach to Israel's war with Hamas from senators across the political spectrum on Tuesday.
Blinken came under forceful questioning about Biden's pause on some offensive weapons to Israel, a State Department report on Israel's conduct in the war and the administration's posture toward Iran at the hearing that broadly focused on the president's foreign policy.
In an especially fiery exchange, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told Blinken near the end of the hours-long hearing, “You funded our enemies, and you undermine our friends, and the world is much, much more dangerous as a result and Americans are at greater jeopardy because of it."
Firing back, Blinken told him, "In fact, we've brought more countries together. We have stronger allies, stronger partnerships, stronger engagement from countries around the world to deal with a very dangerous world than we had.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due to make his case for President Joe Biden’s $64 billion foreign affairs budget request in four congressional hearings this week, amid deep divides with Republicans over spending priorities and Israel policy.
Blinken testifies on Tuesday in the Democratic-controlled Senate to the Foreign Relations Committee and to the appropriations subcommittee that oversees diplomatic and foreign aid spending.
He returns to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for two more rounds of testimony at hearings of the Republican-led House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee and a House appropriations subcommittee.
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