During debate on the House floor on Thursday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spoke in support of her amendment to eliminate funds from Defense Department appropriations for Jordan's armed services.
00:00Thank you, Mr. Speaker. With the American people $37 trillion in debt and we are weighing whether we should send another $500 million to Jordan after they have already received $1.65 billion in another appropriations request and they receive already another $1.65 billion every single year from the American taxpayer who can hardly afford to pay their bills.
00:30Let's talk about America's veterans. You know, for the past several decades, we have men and women in our country, great men and women, who served in our military but yet were shipped over to some foreign war in the Middle East.
00:48That didn't defend America's border. Our border continued to be overrun by foreign people from all over the world.
00:55But they were sent over there to fight for our freedoms and you know what they came home with?
01:00They came home with physical injuries that they have to live with the rest of their life and they came home with PTSD and mental injuries that they live with for the rest of their life.
01:11And unfortunately, they have a suicide rate of over 22 a day.
01:19Over 6,400 veterans committed suicide in 2022 and 32,000 veterans were homeless in 2024.
01:30Yet the debate is about sending another $500 million for the defense of Jordan and that's a country I guarantee you most Americans can't even find on a map.
01:42But most Americans have a veteran in their family or their friends that suffers every single day from this country's continued pursuit of foreign wars and funding foreign wars.
01:54Mr. Speaker, enough of the foreign aid and foreign wars and funding for the security of foreign borders that have nothing to do with our own borders and our own American people and the $37 trillion in debt that's killing us.
02:10Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to support my amendment and I yield the remainder of my time.
