Far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday vowed to nix American funding for Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s invasion if the GOP retakes Congress in subsequent week’s midterm elections.
“The one border they care about is Ukraine, not America’s southern border,” Greene claimed of Democrats at a rally in Iowa. “Beneath Republicans, not one other penny will go to Ukraine. Our nation comes first. They don’t care about our border or our individuals.”
Greene’s pledge was met with cheers from the viewers.
Outgoing Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) slammed Greene’s remark as being “precisely” what Russian President Vladimir Putin desires.
“If we’d had Republicans like this within the Nineteen Eighties, we’d have misplaced the Chilly Conflict,” she wrote on Twitter.
The GOP is presently cut up over whether or not to proceed financially helping Ukraine in opposition to the invasion, which Putin launched in February.
The U.S. has to this point donated greater than $67 billion to the Ukrainian trigger.
However this week, Home Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) urged U.S. pursestrings for the protection can be considerably tightened if his celebration wins again management of the 2 chambers.
“I feel individuals are gonna be sitting in a recession and so they’re not going to jot down a clean examine to Ukraine,” McCarthy stated. “They simply received’t do it.”