Greene knocks Republicans, Democrats after all her defense funding amendments fail
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) early Friday blasted her Republican and Democratic colleagues after all six of her amendments to the House’s defense appropriations bill failed.
The lower chamber advanced the legislation, which allocates around $832 billion in funding for Department of Defense (DOD) programs for fiscal 2026 in a vote overnight.
Greene’s amendment to cut funding for the Israeli Cooperative Program — an agreement through which the U.S. provides Israel $500 million for programs for missile defense — was shot down in a 6-422 vote.
The amendment garnered support from Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and a group of progressive Democrats: Reps. Al Green (Texas), Summer Lee (Pa.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (Mich.)
Additionally, the Georgia Republican’s amendment to bar funds in the bill from being used for assistance to Ukraine was not approved, getting rejected in a 76-353 vote. All 76 lawmakers who backed the amendment were House Republicans.
“Tonight all of my amendments to cut $1.6 billion of foreign aid out of our Defense budget failed because both Republicans and Democrats refuse to stop sending your hard earned tax dollars to foreign countries,” Greene wrote in a post on social media platform X.
“For example, $118 million to foreign countries for disaster relief like floods that haven’t even happened yet,” the lawmaker added. “And $15 million for AIDS education activities for soldiers in Africa. I mean can’t they figure that out by now? And my amendment to stop sending money to Ukraine. Yep that one failed too.”
She also warned that the U.S. is “$37 TRILLION in debt and Congress will never ever fix it because they will never ever stop the insane out of control spending that drives inflation up and makes your life unaffordable.”
The House overall passed the defense funding bill in a 221-209 vote. Three Republicans opposed it, while five Democrats joined the rest of the GOP lawmakers in getting the bill over the hump.
The legislation bolsters funding for active, reserve, and National Guard by $6.6 billion over the current funding levels. If signed into law, basic pay for military personnel would increase by 3.8 percent starting next year. The bill also secured $174 billion for procurement and $283 billion for operation and maintenance, among other measures.
It marks only the second appropriations bill Republicans have been advanced for fiscal 2026, as efforts to pass the now-signed “big, beautiful bill” full of President Trump’s spending and tax priorities took up much of the party’s focus in recent months.