'The American People Are $37 Trillion In Debt!': Marjorie Taylor Greene Demands Foreign Aid Cut

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During House floor debate on Thursday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) introduced an amendment to reduce funding for "overseas humanitarian, disaster, and civic aid."

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00:00Amendment number 111, printed in Part A of House Report number 119-199, offered by Ms. Green of Georgia.

00:08Pursuant to House Resolution 580, the gentlewoman from Georgia, Ms. Green, and a member opposed will control five minutes each.

00:15The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Georgia.

00:18Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

00:20We support our great men and women in our military, and we want to fund them to have the best equipment,

00:28be afforded the best housing, the best pay, and to be treated the best among the world.

00:34But I have an amendment today that would strike $118 million of funding to overseas humanitarian disaster

00:42and civic aid programs of the Department of Defense.

00:46These accounts fund programs for humanitarian assistance in foreign countries, in other nations,

00:53for foreign peoples, humanitarian mine action programs, foreign disaster relief for foreign countries

01:01and foreign peoples that the American people are having to pay for.

01:05And I want to remind everyone, the American people are $37 trillion in debt because of this institution

01:11and the way Congress has spent their money.

01:14Think about our own national disasters and problems that we face here at home,

01:19the American taxpayer faces, Hurricane Helene, Hurricane Milton, the Lahaina wildfires,

01:27the L.A. wildfires, the Texas flooding, where there are still over 100 missing people,

01:33the opioid epidemic, the fentanyl epidemic, and all over the country, people are suffering.

01:40The American people voted to put America first.

01:43And Mr. Speaker, the American people are still being put last.

01:47Right now, the average health insurance premium for a family has risen by 22% since 2018.

01:56Fentanyl still kills hundreds of people every single day in America.

02:00And more than 32,000 veterans, people who served in our military, were homeless in 2024.

02:09And there were 6,407 suicides among Americans in 2022.

02:16This is unacceptable.

02:18In our Department of Defense appropriations funding,

02:23we should be funding for our military and not paying for funding for humanitarian aid in crisis in foreign countries.

02:31America simply cannot afford it anymore.

02:35Mr. Speaker, I reserve.

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