Matt Gaetz: “This Congress has authorized $115 billion to Ukraine. My amendment would ensure that this Defense appropriations bill…”

“This Congress has authorized $115 billion to Ukraine. My amendment would ensure that this Defense appropriations bill sends no more. Madam Chair, $115 billion is an astonishing amount of money, especially when you consider that our Nation sits atop a $33 trillion debt and we are facing $2 trillion in annual deficits. It is not as if the $115 billion has brought this conflict any closer to an end. In fact, the massacres and the killings and the death continue. The next statement is so obvious I can't believe I have to say it out loud. It does not make the United States of America stronger to borrow money from China to give it to Ukraine. I hear a lot of the war hawks in this Congress stand up and say, well, we have to send a message to China by fighting for however long it takes at whatever cost in Ukraine. The message we are sending to China is that they are engaged in a leverage buyout of Russia and increasingly of our own country. We have problems here in America with our own borders. Americans are watching as foreign flags are being erected in the middle of the Rio Grande River while our Nation is being invaded by tens of thousands of people every month. Yet, we go spend all this money on the border of another country. I do not fear broken Russian tanks rolling through Europe. I fear Russia's nuclear weapons and the risk that we could be sleepwalking into a nuclear conflict that could end life as we know it on the planet, all for what?…”