Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday lambasted the Trump administration’s bailout of Argentina, calling it “one of the grossest things I’ve ever seen.”
Greene made the comments as a guest on Tucker Carlson’s show on YouTube, where she defended her record supporting President Trump and his agenda.
However, Greene expressed frustration over “a revolving door of foreign leaders and prime ministers and presidents” asking for money and handouts.
She then brought up the Argentina, which the U.S. on Wednesday gave another $20 million after an initial $20 million that went toward rescuing the country’s crumbling economy.
“I have no idea who is telling our great president, our ‘America First’ president, that this is a good idea,” Greene told Carlson. “Because, honestly, it’s a punch in the gut to all of our American cattle ranchers, and they are furious and rightfully so.”
She continued on to say that the bailout was antithetical to the “America First” agenda, which she said had been hijacked by Republicans in Washington, D.C.
Greene has become a growing voice of criticism toward both the GOP and the Trump administration. On Argentina, she slammed the bailout and said the South American country should not benefit while Americans struggle at home.
“Americans are getting decimated with high cost of living and skyrocketing insurance costs. Many of them have zero savings and some are maxing out credit cards to survive,” Greene wrote in a post on the social platform X on Oct. 16.
The Trump administration is looking to import Argentinian beef to help bring down prices for U.S. grocery shoppers. This would require quadrupling low-tariffs imports from Argentina and raising the quota to 80,000 metric tons per year.
The plan will affect domestic ranchers around the country, along with several states like Kansas, Texas and Iowa.
Nebraska could see the largest impact. The state exported over $1.86 billion worth of beef in 2022, the most in the country, according to the Nebraska Farm Bureau. This amount accounted for almost 16 percent of the country’s beef exports.
