; and (D) the seven largest investing countries, all of which are United States allies—the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, France, Canada, Switzerland, and the Netherlands—accounted for 72.1 percent of U.S. affiliate value added and over 80 percent of affiliates’ R&D expenditures. (4) According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), from 2011 to 2016, the number of transactions reviewed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) grew by 55 percent, while agency staff assigned to the reviews increased by 11 percent. (5) In light of staffing constraints at CFIUS, GAO has cautioned against expanding CFIUS’s authorities precipitously. According to a February 2018 report (GAO–18–249), GAO noted: Officials from Treasury and other member agencies are aware of pressures on their CFIUS staff given the current workload and have expressed concerns about possible workload increases. . GAO concluded: Without attaining an understanding of the staffing levels needed to address the current and future CFIUS workload, particularly if legislative changes to CFIUS’s authorities further expand its workload, CFIUS may be limited in its ability to fulfill its objectives and address threats to the national security of the United States. . (6) On March 30, 1954, Dwight David Eisenhower—five-star general, Supreme Allied Commander, and 34th President of the United States—in his Special Message to the Congress on Foreign Economic Policy , counseled: Great mutual advantages to buyer and seller, to producer and consumer, to investor and to the community where investment is made, accrue from high levels of trade and investment. . He continued: The internal strength of the American economy has evolved from such a system of mutual advantage. In the press of other problems and in the haste to meet emergencies, this nation—and many other nations of the free world—have all too often lost sight of this central fact. . President Eisenhower concluded: If we fail in our trade policy, we may fail in all. Our domestic