Marjorie Taylor Greene Explodes Over U.S. Foreign Aid Spending: 'I Say Enough!'

In House floor remarks on Thursday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) decried U.S. foreign aid expenditures.

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00:00Mr. Speaker, the American people are $37 trillion in debt.

00:06The Department of Defense's mission statement is to deter war and ensure our nation's security.

00:14That is their mission, and that is exactly what their funding should be for.

00:18I'd like to ask, what foreign country showed up to help Americans in our need, in our time

00:25of distress, in our humanitarian crises?

00:29Which foreign country has come to clean up the hundreds of people that die every single

00:34day on the streets from fentanyl?

00:36Which foreign country showed up to defend our border as we were invaded by millions of

00:41people for the past four years?

00:43Which foreign country said, here, America, here's millions and billions of dollars to

00:49help you?

00:50I'm going to tell you, zero, zero foreign countries showed up.

00:56And here we are again, while the American people are enslaved by $37 trillion in debt, a debt

01:04we can never climb out of, but yet a debt that continues to rise because here in Congress,

01:11we go by this belief that we have to fund every foreign country all around the world.

01:17And I say, enough.

01:19And the American people say, enough.

01:21Right now, Americans can't afford their rent.

01:24They can't—young people cannot afford to buy a home.

01:27Ask any 20-year-old, 30-year-old, and ask them if they believe they will ever be a homeowner.

01:33And their answer overwhelmingly is no.

01:37Americans can't afford their bills.

01:38They can't afford car insurance, health insurance, homeowner's insurance.

01:43And life does not look good in the future.

01:46But you want to know why inflation is high?

01:49Do you want to know why life continues to be unaffordable?

01:52Because Congress cannot rein in its America last spending.

01:57It cannot stop.

01:58And it refuses to stop.

02:00It continues to say yes to the lobbyists for the military industrial complex.

02:05It continues to say yes to every lobbyist that walks in this institution as congressmen

02:11and women take donations into their campaign accounts.

02:16Americans are the most generous in the world.

02:19Americans can donate through charities to foreign countries to help foreign issues and foreign

02:24people.

02:25But the American people should not be forced to write the check, and the Department of Defense

02:30should be able to focus on their mission to detour war and ensure our nation's security.

02:36Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to support this amendment, and I yield.

02:40Senator Liddy yields.