Marjorie Taylor Greene revives obsession with 'space lasers', this time in bid to sabotage Ukraine aid

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene offered a bewildering amendment to a bill to supply military assistance to Israel on the issue of border security on Wednesday, further complicating her duel with Speaker Mike Johnson and drawing criticism that she is unserious.

She suggested that the Israel aid bill should also involve setting up a space laser to help control migration at the US-Mexico border.

It is not the first time she’s referenced such extraterrestrial hardware: before being elected she suggested that California forest fires were being started by a space laser partly owned by a prominent Jewish banking family. She later denied being antisemitic, insisting she had no idea the Rothschild family were Jewish.

When asked about the claims recently by a British journalist she suggested they “f*** off”.

The Georgia representative is currently one of two Republicans cosponsoring a motion to oust Mr Johnson from the speakership, the other being Kentucky’s Thomas Massie who joined her effort this week. At the heart of her conflict with the speaker is a planned vote on military assistance to Ukraine on Saturday; Ms Greene opposes more military assistance for the eastern European nation as it continues to face a Russian onslaught.

As part of the Speaker’s plan to pass the Ukraine assistance bill, the House is set to vote on five individual pieces of legislation over the next few days.

Three are part of the so-called national security “supplemental”: the Ukraine bill, and two others dealing with military aid to Israel and Taiwan. A fourth deals with the border, and contains some provisions of the bill passed by the House last year — HR 2, which would have changed the standards for releasing undocumented immigrants after they