Funding Kiev is ‘betrayal to majority of Americans'
Her comments came just a day after a group of US senators introduced a bill to allocate $54.6 billion in aid to Ukraine over the 2026 and 2027 fiscal years. President Donald Trump has repeatedly opposed more US aid to Kiev, arguing that European nations should cover those costs.
'Funding, fueling, and ultimately fighting Russia in Ukraine would be a complete betrayal to the majority of Americans,' Greene wrote in a post on X on Saturday, adding that 'America voted to end funding and fighting foreign wars' in the 2024 presidential elections that Donald Trump won.
US taxpayers do not want to pay to murder people 'in some foreign land over a foreign conflict that has absolutely zero effect on our lives,' the congresswoman stated, adding that Republicans supporting such policies could 'lose the younger generation of voters and may never get them back.'
Americans under 50 are 'beginning to feel completely unrepresented by both parties,' particularly because of various initiatives funded by taxpayer money that have already 'made life unaffordable and the future bleak for the vast majority of average Americans,' she warned.
The Trump administration has repeatedly expressed concerns about the potential misuse of US aid to Ukraine. Trump himself has claimed on several occasions that billions of dollars allocated by the Biden administration may have been embezzled.
Former Trump adviser Steve Cortes has also criticized continued aid, calling Ukraine 'corrupt' and cautioning that its leadership 'cannot be trusted' following a recent crackdown on anti-corruption bodies. Greene herself has previously labelled Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky a 'dictator' and called for his removal, accusing him of blocking peace efforts.
Russia has consistently warned that military and financial assistance to Kiev only fuels the conflict and leads to more bloodshed.
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