MTG says she voted against Defense Bill to stop Ukraine from becoming next ‘Afghanistan war’

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🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says her latest surprising vote against the Defense bill was done for a “very simple” reason to prevent Ukraine from becoming the next decade long war. Greene says, “I love our veterans, I love our military and because I love them so much. I do not want another Korea, I don't want another Vietnam, another Iraq, another Afghanistan War, where we spend trillions of dollars and we watch coffins come home draped with flags.” The Georgia Congresswoman says that unfortunately, that’s where the U.S. is heading, “people in the Senate, many of the Democrats, the Biden administration, the State Department, if they had it their way, they would put troops on the ground as soon as possible in Ukraine. And I believe now is the time that we have to stand up and stop this and it's a big issue. A CNN poll said, 71% of Republican voters are against sending money to Ukraine and funding a war over there; defending Ukraine's borders and doing nothing about our borders. And then the CNN poll also said, 55% of all voters said they're against sending more money to Ukraine. So I'm not doing anything different than how the American people truly feel.”

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0:30.0	Hello America and happy Thursday, a busy day, the budget discussion is on Capitol Hill,
0:39.2	came to a collapse, Kevin McCarthy sent everybody home, that doesn't mean there's not a lot
0:43.2	going on behind the scenes.
0:44.5	There is actually a lot of discussions, a lot of meetings, a lot of negotiations.
0:47.9	I don't think that there's going to be a resolution right away, but they're talking.
0:52.7	They're having a meaningful conversation and I think that that's really important.
0:56.0	We've got some great guests who are right in the thick of this debate, as well as the
1:00.1	thick of the rising impeachment inquiry next week, the first hearing on Thursday, joining
1:04.5	us at the top of the show, Marjorie Taylor Green from the great state of Michigan.
1:08.4	She's become a major player between the conservatives, the moderates, but she today thwarted
1:13.9	Kevin McCarthy, who thought he was going to get at least a defense appropriations bill
1:17.2	passed, one of the 12 that I think had passed.
1:19.3	She cast a deciding vote against it.
1:21.8	I don't think Kevin McCarthy was prepared for that.
1:23.8	She's going to come on a show, explain that.
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