My amendment to withhold 100% of U.S. aid to Nigeria until its government stops the slaughter of Christians has PASSED. American taxpayers should NEVER bankroll governments that turn a blind eye while Christians are abducted, tortured, and murdered.

X.com ^ | 7/16/2026 | Congressman Greg Steube @RepGregSteube

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Congressman Greg Steube

 

 

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BREAKING: My amendment to withhold 100% of U.S. aid to Nigeria until its government stops the slaughter of Christians has PASSED.

 

American taxpayers should NEVER bankroll governments that turn a blind eye while Christians are abducted, tortured, and murdered.

 

No more wasteful foreign aid!

 

July 15, 2026

 

[ransomnote]

I commend him for getting his amendment passed. It just gives me pause that we have to make amendments to stop the precedent the Swamp set by funding murderous regimes. Sociopaths hardest hit.

[PGalt]

Thanks for posing ‘note.

[algore]

I thought being tortured was proof you were a real christian ?

I am just waiting for real entertainment to come back to our arenas.

[Fungi]

Why is there any “foreign aid” from a country $40 TRILLION in debt?

[Jeff Vader]

that’s a nice start, but how about we just quit sending aid to any government at all?

[Irenic]

Go straight to congress, do not pass go.

[Gay State Conservative]

Just about the most dangerous thing in the world is to be a Christian in a majority moslem region.

[BlackbirdSST]

American taxpayers should NEVER bankroll governments...

He should've stopped right there.

[Glad2bnuts]

Now cut off foreign aid to ALL. Our dollar is worth $.02. Totally because of deficit spending. That is my two cents.

[frog in a pot]

American taxpayers should NEVER bankroll governments..."

He should've stopped right there.

That is a legitimate starting point, and certainly carries weight if our economy is not well-controlled.

On the other hand, cutting aid to certain governments may make sense only in a "defund the police" sort of way.

As many of us learned in high school, there is a balance of global balance that tends to assure our own stability that is worth maintaining.

There is the uncomfortable fact, of course, that unmanaged aid becomes as troublesome as habitually loaning money to a troubled friend.

[Red Badger]

Nigeria is a memeber of OPEC. Why are we giving them anything?..............

[Eli Kopter]

Not just Christians, but Jews or any other group that are murdered and persecuted on a grand scale. Why give them support at all?

[Tell It Right]

I thought being tortured was proof you were a real christian ?

Then I must have been a real Christian when our youngest daughter was going through her Hanna Montana phase.

[redinIllinois]

.A

[SisterK]

praise God

[Paul R.]

The actual (legit) accusation is that the Nigerian Gov’t is “allowing” the killings of Christians, or not doing enough to stop them.

However, I don’t know that the Nigerian Government has the capacity to do so (stop the killings): Nigeria has a huge population, a bit over half Muslim, and is a quite “messy” country, historically through the present with violence in many directions. The divisions are not just religious, they are tribal and regional within the country, as well. Gov’t control of some of its own forces is tenuous at best.

A couple high school classmates of mine used to be missionaries there for a while.

With that backdrop, some questions to be asked are:

Can we make aid more directly helpful in curbing violence?

If we suspend aid, does that worsen the situation for “innocents” and victims? Does it create more victims?

If we suspend aid, does that hand over what influence we may have to China?

Background info. on this quite large (population) and fairly resource rich but poorly run country:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria

(Some of the Wikipedia info. may be considered biased — feel free to rebut from legit(!) sources.)