Tillerson Slams Biden Comment: ‘Show Me Your Results and I’ll Tell You Your Commitment’

‘Funding does not equal results’

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TILLERSON: "So having the funds is certainly appreciated and needed, but then we have to be able to deliver, working with other aid agencies and working with the situation on the ground to have the aid reach those most in need. Our expectation, as we reflected, just wanting to be completely transparent with everyone, is that we are pushing that out as quickly as we can effectively do that. We are going to have some carry-over as a result of the plus up. I think when we get around it, it is a broader budget question as to — it is difficult to execute a $55 billion budget for the organization. So the statement that — show me your funding and I'll show you your level of commitment, I do not agree with. Funding does not equal results. Show me your results and I'll tell you your commitment. That's what we are trying to get the folks in the State Department is, what are the results? Then I'll tell you what I need to deliver on those results. Giving me a pot of money and suggesting that that confirms our success and our commitment is just simply — I have to take exception to that."  

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