{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/murphy-statement-on-trumps-national-security-strategy", "MURPHY STATEMENT ON TRUMPS NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY", "2017-12-18", "2017", "2017-12", "Democrat", "House", "CT", "Christopher Murphy", "M001169", "www.murphy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "MURPHY STATEMENT ON TRUMPS NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tMurphy: The implosion of American support for efforts to advance human rights, democracy or health will directly lead to a more dangerous world.Murphy: The implosion of American support for efforts to advance human rights, democracy or health will directly lead to a more dangerous world.\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tMonday, December 18, 2017\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON  U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations and U.S. Senate Appropriations Committees, released a statement on Monday after President Trump unveiled a National Security Strategy that calls for an aggressive and confrontational military and economic approach, while virtually ignoring foreign assistance, diplomacy, and development programs.\r\nPresident Trump fundamentally misunderstands how to use the tools at his disposal to advance Americas national security. He says retreating from the world puts America first, but the implosion of American support for efforts to advance human rights, democracy or health will directly lead to a more dangerous world. What the president doesnt understand is that State Department and USAID programs dont owe their existence to our charitable benevolence, but to our self-interest and national security. Instability, corruption, poverty, disease and chaos in far reaches of the world often give rise to the despotic rulers and terrorist organizations that directly threaten the United States.\r\nUsing every tool at our disposal  both military and diplomatic  is the only smart way to forge a world that is safe for Americans. Our global adversaries understand this, and we used to  but Im very worried that the Trump administrations National Security Strategy deliberately ignores it, and to our peril.\r\nEarlier this year, Murphy blasted the Trump administrations proposal to cut State Department funding. He also criticized President Trumps proposal to gut assistance for developing countries and to fold the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) into the Department of State.\r\nMurphy is author of Rethinking the Battlefield, a comprehensive proposal containing specific recommendations to dramatically increase the United States non-military footprint abroad by nearly doubling the U.S. foreign affairs budget  including the State Department and USAID  with an emphasis on funding for international development, additional foreign service officers, anti-corruption efforts, countering propaganda, crisis response, and humanitarian relief.\r\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/murphy-statement-on-trumps-national-security-strategy"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6700830310583115, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}