00:00Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As the House considers funding $831 billion to the Department of Defense for the funding of our great men and women in our military to defend our nation and our nation's interests, it's important to talk about the foreign aid that we are funding to foreign countries.
00:19The American people are $37 trillion in debt. $37 trillion in debt. The debt keeps rising, and the interest on our debt is at $1 trillion now per year. $1 trillion.
00:34My amendment would strike $500 million of military assistance to Taiwan. This is an increase of $100 million from fiscal year 2025 and will be used to provide a wide variety of assistance, including planes, drones, missile defense, munitions, and more.
00:54However, the entire, listen to this, as we're giving an extra $100 million, making it $500 million in this Department of Defense appropriations bill, the entire defense budget of Taiwan is less than $20 billion.
01:11Our defense budget is $831 billion. It wouldn't be so high if we weren't giving foreign aid.
01:18We've given Taiwan over $2 billion in funding and munitions over the past two years.
01:25We've already given them $2 billion, but now we're giving them another $500 billion.
01:31Increasing foreign aid to Taiwan will only increase their reliance on the United States, and the United States should be serving the American people
01:40and stop enslaving the American people in massive debt that drives the inflation that is causing Americans to suffer, that is causing Americans to not be able to afford everyday life.
01:54The United States is $37 trillion in debt, and we can't even hardly afford our own massive military budget,
02:02let alone funding the significant portions of other countries, of foreign countries, and foreign nations, and foreign people that do not pay taxes here in America.
02:16We have so many of our own domestic problems here at home and should not be funding foreign countries, foreign aids, and, quite frankly, instigating World War III with China.
02:29Before we start worrying about Taiwan's borders or Ukraine's borders or any other country's borders,
02:36we should be focusing on the continued security of our own border and deporting the criminals and terrorists
02:43and millions of people that invaded our country and are somewhere within our country after they invaded our own borders.
