Marjorie Greene

Ms. GREENE of Georgia

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, my amendment prohibits the Department of Homeland Security from working with the State Department to establish something they call Safe Mobility Offices. As if legalizing and enabling the invasion of America is not enough, the Biden administration wants to create offices down in foreign countries to bring more people in in their foreign country and help them invade the United States, and they want the American taxpayer to pay for it. It is unbelievable. Secretary Mayorkas is not only allowing illegals to invade our country, but he is also actively importing these terrorists and rapists into our country through the establishment--taxpayer-funded, by the way--of Safe Mobility Offices. In a recent ABC interview, Mayorkas bragged about this fact, stating: ``We have built Safe Mobility Offices in Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Costa Rica to reach people where they are so they don't have to take the perilous journey.'' I can't even believe this is a real thing. He is not discouraging or preventing these illegals from invading our borders. He is showing them how to do it, and he is making it easier for them to come by establishing offices in those foreign countries, bringing them in, and telling them how to come to the United States. According to the State Department, the Safe Mobility initiative is one of the many ways the United States is facilitating access to safe and lawful pathways from partner countries in the region, at no cost to them, so refugees and vulnerable migrants don't have to undertake dangerous journeys in search of safety and better opportunities. I bet Americans would love to feel safe. I bet Americans who have lost children and family members to illegal alien crime, rape, and murder would love for their family members to be safe and their dead family members to have better opportunities. No, the Biden administration won't allow it. They have to open up offices to bring in more people. Once aliens apply, experts from international organizations help individuals assess which legal pathways might work for them. If the individual qualifies for resettlement into the United States, which, according to the Biden administration, everybody gets resettlement into the United States, they get a bus ticket, a plane ticket, or a train ticket to any of the 50 States that they want. Then, the individual will undergo expedited refugee processing under the Safe Mobility initiative. So our taxpayers are paying for offices in these foreign countries to recruit people to come to our country and be expedited in at the cost of the American people. This is outrageous, infuriating, embarrassing, and pathetic. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, may I inquire how much time I have remaining.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, my amendment would effectively fire Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as Secretary of Homeland Security for the atrocious job that he is doing with our southern border and the overall security of our Nation. Earlier this year, the House of Representatives passed my Articles of Impeachment against Secretary Mayorkas, making him the first Cabinet Secretary to be impeached since 1876. If the House impeached Secretary Mayorkas, we should certainly not pay him. Here are some real-life consequences of Alejandro Mayorkas's failures. Rachel Morin, a mother of five from Maryland, was brutally raped and murdered by an illegal alien from El Salvador, who Mayorkas allowed to enter our country as a got-away. A 13-year-old girl in New York City was violently raped at knifepoint and kidnapped in broad daylight by a vicious illegal from Ecuador. He is a monster who was previously caught crossing the border with a 3- year-old child on his back in 2021, and then he was released into the United States of America under Secretary Mayorkas. Jocelyn Nungaray, 12 years old, was strangled to death and dumped in a creek in Houston, Texas, by two illegals from Venezuela, who were released under Secretary Mayorkas earlier this year. I can't understand and comprehend why my colleagues across the aisle want to keep this going. This child was 12 years old. Kayla Marie Hamilton, 20 years old, was raped and strangled to death by an illegal MS-13 gang member who was apprehended but subsequently released under Mayorkas. By the way, he was covered in gang tattoos. They knew exactly what he was, but under the leadership of Secretary Mayorkas, these monsters get released into our country. Laken Riley, 22, was brutally kidnapped and murdered by an animal from Venezuela, who was released into our communities under Secretary Mayorkas and not prosecuted in the justice system in the State of New York. No more Americans should have to die because Secretary Mayorkas refuses to enforce the laws of our country. Secretary Mayorkas' policies are escorting murderers, rapists, criminal trespassers, gang members, and terrorists into American communities. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, my colleague across the aisle talks about Secretary Mayorkas and his so-called critical role in our Nation's security, yet Secretary Mayorkas has allowed over 360 individuals on the terrorist watch list to be caught while illegally crossing the southern border between ports of entry. We have no idea how many terrorists are in the interior of our country. Two million that we know of have gotten away. How many of the 2 million are terrorists? He has enabled a 7,000 percent increase in illegal crossings of Chinese nationals ever since 2021 when he took the job. His open border is allowing fentanyl to pour into our communities, which is killing 300 Americans every single day. I would argue the Ukraine war is not murdering any Americans, yet this House of Representatives and the people in Washington are obsessed with using American taxpayer dollars to fund that war while fully ignoring the war on our southern border. According to the Georgia Narcotics Association, approximately 7 out of 10 pills on the street are laced with fentanyl coming across the southern border, yet my colleague across the aisle says that we are ignoring the humanitarian crisis at the southern border. What this government, this administration, and Secretary Mayorkas are doing is ignoring the humanitarian crisis all across our country. Fentanyl is a weapon of mass destruction that is murdering Americans. That should be the issue this House cares about. Secretary Mayorkas' policies have killed Americans, bankrupted communities, overrun schools, besieged towns, drowned hospitals, and incapacitated law enforcement while empowering cartels and foreign entities. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, talk about burdening Border Patrol, we can talk about the over 12 million illegal aliens that have flooded into our country ever since Joe Biden took office, all under the direction of Secretary Mayorkas. Yes, that has definitely burdened Border Patrol. Talk about innovative solutions, I think we could call it innovative if you are talking about completely invading the United States of America by the Biden administration and Secretary Mayorkas. His creative idea of an innovative solution is to open offices in foreign countries to recruit people to come to the United States and be expedited wherever they want to go. This is a slap in the face of every single American. It is a complete embarrassment. It is outrageous. Our Nation is over $34.5 trillion in debt right now, and Democrats want to open up and spend money to open up more offices to bring more people in? My colleague talks about overwhelming Border Patrol. This is overwhelming the American people. Mr. Chair, I urge all of my colleagues in the House to pass my amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chairman, my amendment would ensure that no additional funding is appropriated for Ukraine through the State Department. To date, Congress has appropriated $174.2 billion in emergency supplemental funding. Of this amount, about $58 billion of which 33 percent has been provided through the Department of State and USAID, and there is virtually no oversight to tell the American people how much of their money is going where. We know the money goes to humanitarian and economic assistance and other nonmilitary assistance, but there is much fraud and abuse suspected and widely reported. The economic support fund for Ukraine's Government goes toward providing food, energy, and healthcare services for the people of Ukraine. It is also used to counter Russian disinformation and supporting small- and medium-sized agribusinesses and natural gas purchases by Ukraine. According to some reports, Ukraine has actually been purchasing Russian natural gas from third parties during the war. It seems counterintuitive for the U.S. to sanction Russian oil and then send taxpayer dollars to Ukraine only for them to turn around and use the money to buy Russian oil. USAID provides direct budget support to the Ukrainian Government through three trust funds: the multidonor trust fund, the single donor trust fund, and public expenditures for administrative capacity endurance. This budget support funds the salaries of healthcare workers, first responders, school employees, and assistance for pensioners and internally displaced persons in Ukraine. While our southern border is being invaded daily, Joe Biden cares more about protecting the borders of Ukraine than the country he swore to protect. About one-half of Americans think the U.S. is spending too much money helping Ukraine according to the most recent AP poll. According to a recent CBS poll, over 60 percent of Republicans do not support additional aid to Ukraine, and even one in four Democrats don't support it anymore. After all, the American people are over $34.5 trillion in debt, but Joe Biden doesn't care about what Americans on either side of the political spectrum think. Joe Biden and his family have profited so much off of Ukraine's corruption that he must think it is only fair to return the favor. It is truly disturbing to watch American taxpayer dollars go down the drain or, actually, should we say in foreigners' pockets for foreign purposes that are not our own. Nevertheless, President Biden is beholden to a foreign government. My amendment will ensure that no American taxpayer money is sent to continue an endless failed war in that corrupt country which is murdering an unknown amount of Ukrainian men. Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of my amendment, and I reserve the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, the American people are over $34.5 trillion in debt thanks to the decisions made here in Washington, D.C. My amendment would prohibit $1.6 billion of funding for the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, which sends billions of American taxpayer dollars every single year to foreign nations across the world. USAID was responsible for the management of more than $40 billion in combined annual appropriations in fiscal year 2022, representing more than one-third of the funds provided in the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act. Imagine if this money went to Americans, who, by the way, are paying for it, instead of foreign countries. Maybe we could solve some of the problems we have here at home. That year, USAID provided assistance to over 130 foreign countries. The top countries that received money from most to least were Ukraine, Ethiopia, Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Afghanistan, the Congo, Syria, and Sudan. Among the wasteful things USAID has funded in recent years--under Samantha Power's tenure, by the way--are programs like $385 million DREAMS Initiative--Determined Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe--a program under PEPFAR which aims to reduce rates of HIV among adolescent girls around the world. We certainly care about girls around the world, but we really care about our American taxpayers helping Americans at home. DREAMS has provided millions of girls with family planning counseling, contraceptives, and referrals. In 2022, more than 275,000 sex workers and many others around the world received HIV medication from USAID. Again, the American people are over $34.5 trillion in debt, and 300 Americans die every single day from fentanyl poisoning. USAID also implements programs that identify and respond to the unique needs of women, men, girls, boys, and those of other gender identities--by the way, there aren't any; there are only two--of all ages and abilities, and in all their diversity, so they can equally access and use HIV prevention and treatment services, protect themselves and practice healthy behaviors, exercise their rights, and live free from violence, stigma, and discrimination. I think Americans here would like to live free from violence, but again, our border is overrun. Since 2014, USAID has led the coordination and implementation of PEPFAR's Sustainable Financing Initiative. PEPFAR, by the way, is receiving over $5 billion in funding from the American people. With investments of $48 million, the USAID-led SFI generated more than $361 million of domestic resources across 16 countries and two regional programs over 6 years. In Tanzania, USAID helped access $7.8 million in private-sector financing for private clinics. This investment resulted in a 35 percent increase in HIV testing, with over 10,000 patients tested and 100 percent of positive patients linked to care. In Nigeria, USAID engaged in private pharmacies to provide HIV treatment. Meanwhile, the fentanyl drug crisis continues to rage across America, but we continue to fund USAID with billions of dollars to address AIDS and other diseases all over the world. We should be caring about Americans, and we should be funding treatments for Americans here at home from a weapon of mass destruction that is murdering Americans every single day. American taxpayers are funding this, and American taxpayers want their problems solved. They want Americans protected. They want to feel safe and secure at home, not to be the piggy bank of the world, which is what USAID is. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, my amendment reduces the salary of Samantha Power, the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, to $1. Samantha Power is a globalist leftwing activist who uses government positions to force the regime's views on the American people and the rest of the world. When Samantha Power took office in 2021, she set three priorities for USAID in her New Vision for Global Development: one, broadening the coalition by increasing the number and diversity of voices at USAID; two, focusing assistance more on the voices and needs of the most marginalized; and, three, making aid more responsive by better incorporating the perspectives of those on the ground. Under Samantha Power, USAID has focused on food security in response to the Ukraine war, climate change, democracy, and governance. Also under Samantha Power, USAID has installed diversity, equity, and inclusion advisers in all bureaus, offices, and overseas missions and has created an agencywide dashboard and DEI scorecards to track staff compliance with the administration's DEI directives. These blatantly political scorecards demand ideological conformity and should have no place in the government workplace or elsewhere. Furthermore, Samantha Power has repeatedly met with influential leftwing foundations while serving in the role. According to nearly 700 pages of internal calendar entries obtained by FOX News, Power met with George Soros' Open Society Foundation multiple times. Of course, she did. She also has met with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation at least five times. She also held meetings with several other powerful groups like the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations. Power's intimate association with these entities exemplifies how the Biden administration and its officials and agencies keep close contact with leftwing outside groups who help execute extreme policy initiatives. When Samantha Power served as Obama's ambassador to the United Nations, she made hundreds of requests to intelligence agencies to unmask names associated with the 2016 Trump campaign in order to support the Russia hoax narrative. For her activism, the Biden administration granted Samantha Power a permanent seat on the National Security Council, a more prominent role than the USAID administrator she has had under previous administrations. A person who abuses her position in government to meddle in democratic elections should be nowhere near public office. Instead of fulfilling her role as an administrator, Samantha Power is focused on imposing a leftwing agenda throughout the entire U.S. Government and its proxies around the world. My amendment will ensure that she is held accountable and that the American people no longer have to fund her salary. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chairman, may I ask how much time I have remaining.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chairman, hearing my colleague across the aisle talking about the rape and murder of women, I remind everyone that American women and children are being raped and murdered by illegal alien monsters that this Biden administration is allowing into the country, releasing into our country and paying for them to travel via buses and planes to all 50 States. If this United States House of Representatives should care about any women, girls, and children being raped and murdered, it should be American women, girls, and children, but this body cares most about Ukraine. I remind everyone that, just recently, a Ukrainian group called Texty published a list of Ukrainian enemies that includes almost 400 Americans, including Republican U.S. lawmakers, conservative influencers and media groups, and antiwar activists. This group receives money from the U.S. State Department through a program called TechCamp. So the State Department is funding a group called Texty that has published a Ukrainian kill list, basically, and that involves American lawmakers and conservative influencers and media groups. It is unbelievable that American taxpayers would be used for this. This is outrageous, Mr. Chair. I ask the House to vote in favor of my amendment. I yield back the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, may I inquire how much time I have remaining.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, I also would like to tell the House that USAID has been an arm of the Democratic Party. Ninety-six percent of all political contributions from USAID employees go to Democratic Party candidates or PACs. Also, just months before the national elections, over 1,000 USAID staff issued a statement echoing Democratic talking points. Here is the issue: Our government is not a charity. The American people are the most generous people in the world, sending unknown amounts of money constantly to every cause to save people's lives. I urge the House to pass my amendment, support our America. America First. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, my amendment would say that none of the funds available in the NDAA may be used for assistance to Ukraine. I think this is an important amendment because I strongly support the NDAA. This is a great military funding bill that has many things involved in it that our military needs. It even contains a much-needed pay raise for our troops, and that is something I greatly believe in right now while many of our military members are suffering under this inflation caused by the Biden administration. I think it is extremely important for Members of Congress to be able to vote separately for funding of foreign wars, and I do not believe that funding for Ukraine should be a part of the NDAA. The mission statement on the Department of Defense's website says that its purpose and mission are to deter war and to ensure our Nation's security. Funding a war in Ukraine does not deter war. It funds it. Funding a war in Ukraine does not ensure our Nation's security, it actually puts us at risk for possible further military engagement with another nuclear-armed nation, and that is Russia. Americans do not support this and neither does the majority of the majority here in Congress, which has voted against funding the war in Ukraine. To date, Congress has appropriated $174.2 billion in emergency supplemental funding. That is a lot of Americans' hard-earned tax dollars going to support security for another country's border while our border is being invaded every single day. Not only is our border being invaded every single day by millions and millions of people from over 160 countries, there is also a war declared on our own country with human trafficking and drugs that are killing Americans every day. On average, there are 300 Americans dying from fentanyl overdoses every day. I believe that should be our focus in the United States Congress. It is also a war in Ukraine that is not defending democracy. Zelenskyy has canceled elections. He is now a dictator. Zelenskyy canceled free speech. Zelenskyy canceled freedom of religion, and Zelenskyy canceled free press. That is not defending democracy. That is actually attacking democracy. Americans do not support sending their hard-earned tax dollars to Ukraine. They support paying our military and funding our military, but not funding a war in a foreign country. Over half of Americans think the United States has already spent too much money in Ukraine, and over 60 percent of Republicans do not support sending additional money to Ukraine. Even one in four Democrats don't support it anymore, according to recent polling. However, most importantly, the corruption in Ukraine is something that cannot be ignored. There has been report after report after report of money missing. The Pentagon cannot track over $1 billion, and there have been reports of much corruption. That involves our hard-earned tax dollars. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, according to the bill text in the NDAA, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the DSCA, is the account of the NDAA that funds Ukraine. The Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, USAI, which annually appropriates $300 million in Ukraine, would receive the standard $300 million authorization again this year, so the funding is in there. That USAI funding is part of the DSCA line item. DSCA is receiving $2.389 billion in this NDAA, of which the $300 million for Ukraine is a part, so the money is definitely in there. It has not been taken out. I will also inform Congress and the American people that a Ukrainian group called Texty recently published a list of Ukrainian enemies that includes almost 400 Americans, including Republican lawmakers. I am on that list, as are Conservative influencers, media groups, and antiwar activists. The group receives money from the U.S. State Department through a program called TechCamp. While that is not part of the NDAA, our money is going to fund NGOs in Ukraine that have declared U.S. lawmakers and Americans enemies. That is extremely dangerous. None of our hard-earned tax dollars should be funding any sort of group that thinks that we are the enemies while we are funding them. We also have no idea how many Ukrainians have been killed in this war. We asked for that number and have not heard. I urge Congress to pass my amendment. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE

Ms. GREENE. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.