[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 28 (Tuesday, February 13, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H546]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    STOP FUNDING FOREIGN WARS AND GOVERNMENTS WITH TAXPAYER DOLLARS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from 
Georgia (Ms. Greene) for 5 minutes.
  Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Madam Speaker, I urge the House and the Senate 
together to consider what terrible days we are in for the American 
taxpayer.
  America has been enslaved in $34 trillion in debt, and yet over the 
weekend, the Senate went into overtime throughout the Super Bowl and 
beyond into the early morning hours to pass a $95 billion package to 
fund foreign wars--$95 billion, and not a penny of that goes to 
anything for any American.
  Our border is completely being invaded every single day by millions 
and millions of people from all over the world, over 160 countries. 
Over 2 million got-aways are in America today.
  A got-away is a person from a country we do not know where they are 
from, we do not know where they are inside our country, what State they 
are in, what city they are in. We do not know what they are going to do 
here on our homeland, but we have lost them.
  Over 10 million people have crossed the border during the Biden 
administration, yet the Senate works overtime to fund foreign wars--$95 
billion, and $60 billion of that is to go to Ukraine.
  America has already sent $113 billion to the failing war in Ukraine. 
It is a complete buzz saw for an entire generation of Ukrainian men. 
This is a land where there should be peace talks continuously ending 
this war, not a place where we continue to write blank checks and keep 
the money laundering going, keep the corruption going, keep selling our 
weapons to lands and countries and governments we do not know.
  There is so many stories of corruption coming from Ukraine, but they 
claim that we have to fight for the democracy of Ukraine. That is a 
lie. Ukraine suspended their elections.
  If we are fighting for democracy, why do we fight for a country that 
suspends their election, locks up American journalists, and destroys 
free speech.
  This is nothing but a money laundering scheme all on the backs of the 
American taxpayer while the American taxpayer is punched in the gut 
every single day as our border is kept wide open.
  The American people do not support continuing this war. The American 
people work hard for every single penny they earn, and it is time for 
the House and the Senate, Republicans and Democrats, to remember our 
oath of office. It is time for us to serve the American people, the 
American interest, American causes, American businesses, and the 
American border.
  Yet, this institution has lost its way. Madam Speaker, we are $34 
trillion in debt, and the only thing that we are talking about is the 
continued funding of a war in Ukraine and funding a war in Israel.
  That is a danger for Israel. If Israel takes America's money, they 
open themselves up to the Biden administration and the State Department 
getting their hooks in their government and telling them what to do in 
their war.
  Israel doesn't need to be told what to do in their war. They need to 
be allowed to conduct their war as they see fit. They were attacked 
horrendously by Hamas who are terrorists.
  We need to leave Israel alone and let them fight their war, but no. 
Every single time we come back into town, the main issues we talk about 
here are how to fund foreign countries, foreign wars, and foreign 
governments while the entire world invades our country, and the 
American taxpayers are forced to pay for it all.
  This is a complete failure for the American taxpayer. It is a 
betrayal of our citizens. This institution, the House and the Senate, 
need to remember our one constitutional duty, and that is to create a 
budget, a budget that funds our government for our people; a budget 
that does not enslave our people into further debt, and yet we have 
failed to do that. We have only passed 7 of our 12 appropriation bills 
and the Senate has not finished passing their appropriation bills 
either.
  I am here to urge my colleagues in the House and the Senate that we 
must come together and remember our oath of office, remember the people 
that we serve, and do our jobs. We serve the American people, and we 
should be serving the United States of America.

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