MY AMENDMENT TODAY WOULD DRIVE THE AMENDMENT -- THE BILL FOR UKRAINE TAKE EACH DOLLAR AMOUNT IN THIS ACT IS HERE BY REDUCED TO ZERO. YOU SEE THE UNITED STATES TAXPAYERS ALREADY SENT $113 BILLION TO UKRAINE. AND A LOT OF THAT MONEY IS UNACCOUNTED FOR. THIS IS A CONTINUOUS OF A SICK BUSINESS MODEL THAT THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT CONTINUES. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO FUND THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AND THIS IS A BUSINESS MODEL THAT REQUIRES CONGRESS TO CONTINUE TO VOTE FOR MONEY, TO CONTINUE TO FUND FOREIGN WARS AND THIS IS A BUSINESS MODEL THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DO NOT SUPPORT. THEY DO NOT SUPPORT A BUSINESS MODEL ON BLOOD, MURDER AND WAR IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES WHILE THIS VERY GOVERNMENT DOES NOTHING TO SECURE OUR BORDER. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OVER $34 TRILLION. THE DEBT IS RISING BY OVER $40 BILLION EVERY SINGLE NIGHT WHILE WE ALL SLEEP, YET NOTHING IS DONE TO SECURE OUR BORDER OR REDUCE OUR DEBT. INFLATION IS DRIVEN OUT OF CONTROL. AMERICANS ARE SUFFERING EVERY SINGLE DAY AND CAN HARDLY AFFORD GROSSLY RY BILLS OR GAS IN THEIR CAR OR HARDLY AFFORD RENT AND MORTGAGE PAYMENTS ARE OVER $3,000 WHERE THEY WERE JUST OVER $1700, THREE YEARS AGO. YOUNG ADULTS DON'T THINK THEY WILL BUY A HOME IN THEIR LIFETIME. TODAY IN CONGRESS, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT THIS BODY THINKS SHOULD BE DONE IS TO SEND ANOTHER $61 BILLION TO A WAR IN UKRAINE THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BY 70% DO NOT SUPPORT. MIND YOU THIS COMES ON THE VERY HEELS OF MONDAY BEING APRIL 15, TAX DAY, WHERE EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN HAD TO SCROUNGE UP THEIR MONEY AND SEND THEIR MONEY INTO THE I.R.S. OR FILE EXTENSIONS BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T READY AND DIDN'T HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY THEIR TAXES. BUT TODAY THIS BODY SAYS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE CAN DO. NO, IT'S NOT REDUCE SPENDING, THAT'S NOT IT, NOT TO DO ANYTHING TO DRIVE DOWN INFLATION, OH, NO, WE CAN'T DO THAT. IT'S NOT JUST TO SECURE OUR OWN BORDER THAT HAS INVADED EVERY SINGLE DAY BY PEOPLE FROM OVER 160 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. NO, DON'T SECURE THE AMERICAN BORDER. LET EVERYONE IN. WE HAVE 1.8 MILLION KNOWN GOT-AWAYS. WE DON'T KNOW WHO THESE PEOPLE ARE. YET WE HAVE MEMBERS OF THIS BODY TALKING BIG AND TOUGH OH, WE HAVE TO DEFEAT RUSSIA AND WE HAVE TO PROTECT UKRAINE. BUT YET ALL OF YOU ARE UNWILLING TO PROTECT THE AMERICAN CITIZEN THAT PAY YOUR PAYCHECK, PAY THE LIGHT BILLS IN THIS BUILDING AND PAY FOR THIS ENTIRE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, FOR WHAT? FOR NOTHING. UKRAINE IS NOT EVEN A MEMBER OF NATO. UKRAINE IS NOT A MEMBER OF NATO. BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU HEAR IN WASHINGTON, D.C., IS OH, WE HAVE TO SPEND AMERICAN HARD-EARNED TAX DOLLARS OVER TO UKRAINE AND KEEP THE MONEY GOING TO CONTINUE TO MURDER UKRAINIANS, WIPE OUT AN ENTIRE GENERATION OF UKRAINIAN MEN SO THAT THERE ARE WIDOWS, FATHERLESS ORPHANS AND NOT TO WORK IN THEIR INDUSTRY. YOU SUPPORT UKRAINE. WOW. WHAT KIND OF SUPPORT IS THAT? REPUS I HAVE. SHAME ON THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. SHAME ON THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. IF WE SUPPORT OUR MILITARY, SUPPORT OUR MILITARY. WE SHOULD BE FUNDING TO BUILDUP OUR WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION AND TO SEND IT OVER TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES TO KILL FOREIGN PEOPLE. IF THIS BODY CLAIMS TO BE WHAT IT IS, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US WOULD BE NANDING PEACE IN UKRAINE BETWEEN THESE COUNTRIES, PEACE FOR THESE PEOPLE SO NO MORE OF THEM HAVE TO DIE. BUT YOU NEVER HEAR ANYBODY DEMANDING PEACE. NO. PEACE IS THE LAST THING WASHINGTON WANTS BECAUSE IT DOESN'T FIT A BUSINESS MODEL. THIS IS A BUSINESS MODEL THEY SAY CONTINUES OUR ECONOMY, PROTECTS AMERICAN JOBS. WHAT A DISGUSTING BUSINESS MODEL. WE SHOULD HAVE A BUSINESS MODEL THAT BUILDS UP OUR AMERICAN COMPANIES AND AMERICAN JOBS TO SERVE AMERICAN INTERESTS AND OUR MILITARY AND OUR GOVERNMENT SHOULD CARE ABOUT PROTECTING THE NATIONAL SECURITY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE AMERICANS THAT PAY THEIR HARD-EARNED TAX DOLLARS TO FUND ALL OF THIS. AMERICA LAST. AMERICA LAST. THAT'S ALL THIS IS. EVERY SINGLE DAY, AMERICA LAST.