Secretary says the government is preparing for a mass rollout of a Coronavirus Vaccine in the 1st half of next year there are reports that some hospitals are preparing to receive their 1st batches as early as next week meanwhile us present donald trump is being accused of giving up the fight against covert 19 after his chief of staff conceded that the u. S. Is not going to control the pandemic a White House Correspondent Kimberly Hockett has more. This is something thats been seized on by the rival of the u. S. President the democratic president ial nominee joe biden who has really accused this administration of waving the white flag if you will certainly throwing up its hands in terms of trying to contain this is a really stark contrast to what the biden. Says he would do as president that he would make it mandatory for people to wear masks he himself has been wearing a mask and has been having social distancing in vans that hes been holding in contrast to the president s very public
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Statement. Thank you, secretary shenker and assistant administrator harvey for testifying today. Nearly three years into the Trump Administration, the United States faces a multitude of challenges in the middle east. While the administration touts its maximum pressure policy, iran continues to destaiblize countries. Despite President Trumps bella koes rhetoric, tehran has bnl able to launch attacks. Undermining u. S. Deterrence and credibility. The Iranian Nuclear program is more advanced today. And the International Community is more guided in con froonting it. Iran continues to unjustly imprison americans and violate the human rights of its own people. Iran also continues to support bashar alla sawed and inside syria and in neighboring countries. This conflict in the humanitarian crisis will reshape the middle east for decades to come but our policy in syria remains ambiguous at best. President trump has now twice announced the rapid and complete withdrawal from troops from syria wit
Today to hear testimony on the Trump Administrations budgetary and policy priorities in the middle east for fiscal year 2020. We look forward to hearing from witnesses about the fy 20 budgets for the department of state Near Eastern Affairs bureau as well usaid bureau for the middle east. Thank the witnesses for appearing today. I recognize myself for purposes of making an opening statement. Thank you assistant ebt secretary shanker and administrator harvey for testifying today. Nearly three years in the Trump Administration, the United States face as multitude of challenges in the middle east. While the administration touts maximum pressure policy, iran continues to detablize countries from iraq yemen and leb ondespite President Trumps rhetoric tehran that is laufrmd attacks on International Shipping and regional states. Undermining u. S. Deterrence and credibility in the process. The Iranian Nuclear program is more advanced today than the day that President Trump took office. And the
Operation in syria, humanitarian efforts in the region, and foreign aid to saudi arabia. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the chair will come to water. The subcommittee is meeting today to hear about the policy priorities for fiscal year 2020. We look forward to hearing from our witnesses about the fy 20 budgets, the Near Eastern Affairs bureau. We thank the witnesses for appearing today. Forw recognize myself making an opening statement. Thank you for testifying today. Nearly three years into the Trump Administration, we have faced a multitude of challenges in the middle east. While the administration counts its maximum pressure policy, iran continues to destabilize countries from iraq to yemen to lebanon. Despite bellicose rhetoric, iraq has iran has attacked regional shipping, undermined u. S. Credibility in the process. To