- At CPAC in February, Marjorie Taylor Greene falsely suggested that Guam was a foreign country.
- The U.S. House of Representatives has been offering Greene cookies ever since.
- The office of the governor of Guam also provided Greene with educational resources on the island.
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GOP representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia was offered cookies and a lesson in geography by leaders in Guam after she falsely suggested that US territory is a foreign country that does not deserve help.
Commenting on the Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida in late February, which surfaced on Tuesday, Greene said: “I am an ordinary person. And I wanted to take my normal, everyday American values, that is, we keep “We believe that our hard-earned tax money should go only to America, not to what? China, Russia, the Middle East, Guam, wherever.”
Michael San Nicolas, Guam’s House Representative, told The Guam Daily Post: ‘Congresswoman Greene is a new member, and we’ll be visiting her and delivering delicious Chamorro Chip Cookies as part of our ongoing outreach to new members to make known set. them to our wonderful island of Guam. ‘
The office of Guam’s governor, Lourdes Aflague Leon Guerrero, provided Greene with educational resources.
“We would be happy to send a copy of the office of ‘Destiny’s Landfall: A History of Guam’ to Representative Greene,” Krystal Paco-San Agustin, director of communications for the governor, told The Post.
Greene’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Guam, an island in the western Pacific Ocean, has been a U.S. territory since 1898 after the Spanish-American War. Its residents are U.S. citizens who pay federal taxes, but not federal income taxes. Many people in Guam serve in the U.S. military, and this is considered of paramount strategic importance.
North Korea threatened the area in 2017, and the top U.S. commander in the Indo-Pacific called earlier this week to upgrade its defense capability on Guam, citing threats from China.
Residents of Guam cannot vote for president and do not vote in Congress. Like other US territories, Guam is sending a delegate to Congress. There are nearly 6,200 U.S. troops in Guam, with about 170,000 people.