Congresswoman Greene Accuses US Leaders of Being Hypocritical About Foreign Wars, Cartels, and Venezuela
Marjorie Taylor Greene claims that as Americans suffer growing expenses, the US ignores Mexican cartels, targets Venezuela for oil, and finances wars.
In the battle against drug trafficking and overseas operations, Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has criticized previous US administrations for what she called hypocrisy and misguided priorities.
Greene said in a statement posted on X on Saturday that her three years on the Homeland Security Committee had exposed inconsistencies in US foreign and security policy and strengthened her support for border security.
For the last three years, I have been a member of the Homeland Security Committee. “I am fully in favor of having safe, secure borders and preventing the trafficking of deadly drugs and people into America by narco terrorists and cartels,” she declared.
“Fentanyl is responsible for over 70% of US drug overdose deaths and fentanyl comes from Mexican cartels made with chemical precursors from China and trafficked across the US-Mexico border,” stated Greene, citing fentanyl as the primary cause of drug overdose deaths in the US.
She maintained that Mexican cartels are “primarily and overwhelmingly responsible for killing Americans with deadly drugs,” and that they are mostly to blame for drug-related fatalities in the United States.
Greene questioned Washington’s foreign policy goals, questioning why cartels operating over the southern border had not been the target of US military action.
“Why hasn’t the Trump administration taken action against Mexican cartels if US military action and regime change in Venezuela were truly about saving American lives from deadly drugs?” She inquired.
“Why did President Trump pardon the former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez who was convicted and sentenced for 45 years for trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into America?” she asked in her criticism of the decision to pardon the former president of Honduras.
“By removing Maduro, this is a clear move for control over Venezuelan oil supplies that will ensure stability for the next obvious regime change war in Iran,” stated Greene, who asserted that moves to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro were motivated by petroleum interests.
She also raised concerns about what she called “double standards” in international wars. She asked, “Why is it acceptable for America to bomb, invade, and detain a foreign leader, but China is bad for attacking Taiwan and Russia is terrible for invading Ukraine? Is it okay only if we do it? (I’m not supporting China or Russia.)
The lawmaker claimed that rising domestic living expenses while taxpayer dollars are being spent overseas are the cause of the growing public ire. “What has most Americans enraged is regime change, funding foreign wars, and American tax dollars being consistently funneled to foreign causes… while Americans are consistently facing increasing costs of living, housing, and healthcare,” she stated.
Greene concluded that neither major US party currently offers alternatives centered on domestic economic development, arguing that younger generations in particular are rejecting what she called “never ending military aggression.”
