Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Introduces Resolution to Audit US Aid to Ukraine

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) participates in a meeting of the House Oversight and Reform Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington on Jan. 31, 2023. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) introduced a resolution to audit all U.S. aid to Ukraine on Friday, the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of the smaller country.

“This is something I introduced in the previous Congress,” Greene told Tucker Carlson on Fox News on Thursday, speaking about the resolution. “Every single Republican, including Mike McCaul, voted in favor for it.”

McCaul, the representative from Texas’ 10th Congressional District, is the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Greene explained that the resolution would “force Congress to give the American people an audit. And that is exactly what the American people need, an audit of Ukraine. Because we have no idea where all this money’s going.”

Greene accused the Biden administration of putting Ukraine’s needs ahead of the people of East Palestine, Ohio, who are still dealing with the aftermath of the toxic train derailment on Feb. 3.

“We know it’s paying for pensions for Ukrainian leaders and people in their government while people in East Palestine are suffering from basically a nuclear bomb that exploded in their city,” she said. “We know that our American dollars are paying for ‘aid’ … in Ukraine, but we don’t know where that’s going.”

Billions in Aid

In April, just over two months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Biden said that U.S. assistance to Ukraine would help fund the pensions of Ukrainians in addition to funding other needs, such as food, water, medicines, and shelter.

The United States has given $32 billion in military aid to Ukraine since the beginning of the war, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said, including an additional $2 billion announced on Friday the Pentagon.

Greene, along with 10 other Republicans, has signed onto a “Ukraine Fatigue Resolution,” introduced this month, that would end all U.S. assistance to Ukraine.

During a CNN town hall event on Thursday, Samantha Power, administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development, said that U.S. assistance to Ukraine has not been abused.

“We don’t provide resources unless we see the receipt for the expenditure. And up to this point, we don’t have any evidence that U.S. assistance is being misused or misspent,” she said.

“But again, the key is not resting on anybody’s goodwill or virtue,” continued Power. “It’s checks and balances, the rule of law, the integrity of officials, and when something is spotted, because there’re going to be issues, that that gets smothered, that the people get fired, that they get prosecuted.”