intended to restart foreign assistance is deeply, deeply concerning. i suspect there are other members of committee that are going to speak to -- to that. that is going to be a heavy lift for you. on the the security front, the united states spent over $80 billion on afghan security forces. many of the funds bypass the state department and this committee. we see a consequences of security cooperation on its own. the taliban is now one of the best armed terrorist organizations on the planet. we have sent repeated requests for plans to address the captured equipment and we have yet to receive any response. and as secretary a think you should demand that all d.o.d. programs require state department concurrence. in closing i would like to speak directly to our diplomats, our men and women in uniform, our gold star families, our humanitarian workers and our veterans. on behalf of the american