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Pompeo: Congress repeatedly rejected State Department budget cuts from $70B to $45B
“We proposed a budget, Joe, about two-thirds of the State Department budget think Forty five billion instead of seventy billion. And each year, both Republican and Democrats alike on Capitol Hill said, nope, we're going to give you a seventy billion.”
Pompeo: Kim Jong-un walked away from agreed terms in Hanoi
“Chairman Kim kind of walked away from what we understood he had agreed to, what he had told me himself.”
Pompeo: Internal opposition and late timing prevented Trump's TikTok ban
“Oh, a little bit of bureaucracy, and then frankly you had senior leaders in the administration who didn't want to close the deal out. There were a couple of us advocating for it, and we ran into a buzzsaw, and then there was, we were a little late, Joe, to be …”
Pompeo: Saudi Arabia will likely join the Abraham Accords
“I think so. I'm praying that they all do.”
Pompeo: China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea Axis Will Tighten
“I think we'll see more and more of that. We'll see ever closer relationships. Frankly, the iron triangle, or if you want to include North Korea quadrilateral between Iran, Russia, China, and North Korea is likely to get even tighter.”
Pompeo: Ukraine war will continue until exhaustion forces a settlement
“That's why it's still going on, and why it's my expectation. It goes on for a while, but if you read just, if you read much history, certainly history of Europe, you, exhaustion takes place, and what seems impossible on Wednesday, a month from now, two months,…”