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Senator, I believe that Dodd-Frank moved all authority for examinations in the consumer space to the CFPB. We still have some jurisdiction, but the answer to my question please, if the CFPB is not…
The transatlantic partnership has been the cornerstone of peace and prosperity for the best part of the century. We share many of the same preoccupations whether on regional stability or the global…
I will meet with Russians with only one Russian guy with Putin only after we will have common plan with Trump Europe and we will sit with Putin and stop the war only in this case I'm ready to meet…
I want there to be more disclosure not less and so that I think is another piece of this that we lost out on in the previous years is not to have incentives for disclosure but just to say yeah…
I think people need to realize that what we're trying to do is we're trying to conserve our enforcement resources so that we have them to go after the people who are doing bad things, whether that's…
I think the point really is that the approach that we've been taking, the road trip that we've been on, has been one that's been marked by just very erratic driving and it's almost like we weren't…
Every single centavo spent, every program that is implemented, every decision that has been made must serve a very clear purpose: to create opportunities that endure, that uplift, and reach far…
The most influential member of NATO seems to be Putin because his whims have the power to block NATO decisions and that's despite the fact that it was Ukraine's Army that stopped Russia, not a NATO…
Research shows that a one-level improvement in Africa's average credit rating would unlock USD 15 billion in additional funding. This alone would outstrip official development assistance and meet…
An African credit rating agency is not just an alternative; it is, in my opinion, an imperative. This agency must be globally credible and backed by rigorous, credible data and driven by high…
Global credit rating agencies have delivered 94% of all downgrades in the past decade while arbitrarily designating only two African nations as investment grade. We must be bold and call this for…
Africa's economic potential is hamstrung by a financial system that misrepresents and understates our reality. Global credit rating agencies have not only dealt a bad hand, they have also…
The demand in the United States and the scale of the volume is huge. US this year alone, the four large hyperscalers, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta are going to spend $300 billion only this year on data…
We are strong enough to react to everything that is harming European economy but we should react always in a way that is always offering the chance for an agreement because it's better for all…
We hope that all private Enterprises and private entrepreneurs will have the ambition to serve the country, strive for development, operate in accordance with the law, and promote common Prosperity…
Currently, the EU 27 are spending around 2% of GDP on defence. And yes, our defence spending went up from just over 200 billion before the war to now over 320 billion last year. But we will need to…
We're going to have a fantastic relationship and it has been. Look, the whole world's been set back over the last four years by the weakness of the United States, the weak leadership of the United…
India has been, to us, just about the highest tariffed nation anywhere in the world. They've been very strong on tariffs and I don't blame them necessarily, but it's a different way of doing…
The US government has a plan to, I would say, waste many hundreds of billions of dollars redoing not just one leg but all three legs with new weapons. It's unbelievably expensive, it causes other…
The idea of making fissile material, there are now techniques for making fissile material using lasers that are completely undetectable. So it's different than when you have to use centrifuges and…
The fear for the Ukrainians is that Russia makes some kind of peace, then returns to its bases, and over the next few years could pump out thousands more tanks and shells and infantry fighting…
Europe has to be careful and he talked about immigration and Europe has a big immigration problem just take a look at what's happened with crime take a look at what's happening in various parts of…
For years, we've been told that everything we fund and support is in the name of our shared Democratic values. Everything from our Ukraine policy to digital censorship is billed as a defense of…
I was struck that a former European commissioner went on television recently and sounded delighted that the Romanian government had just annulled an entire election. He warned that if things don't go…
The Trump Administration is very concerned with European security and believes that we can come to a reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine and we also believe that it's important in the…
Currently, the EU27 are spending around 2% of GDP on defense. Yes, our defense spending went up from just over 200 billion before the war to now over 320 billion last year, but we will need to…
We have put in place hard-hitting sanctions substantially weakening Russia's economy. We have broken one taboo after another and smashed our reliance on Russian gas, making us more resilient…
Trade wars and punitive tariffs make no sense. Tariffs act like a tax; they drive inflation. The hardest hit are inevitably workers, companies, the small income, the middle classes on both sides of…
I think the orders are coming soon, I think they're all coming more or less at the same time. And it's not going to be a big shock to the system, but what it's going to do is it's going to bring…
I think our country is going to be flooded with jobs. Consumers expect our prices is going to go up short term, long, not necessarily I mean not necessarily but I I'll tell you what, we'll go up his…