According to details, the fund was raised following a reported attempt by her office to begin an “America First Caucus” that would focus on “Anglo-Saxon” political values.
“While they continue to dodge questions about Greene’s racist platform, the NRCC has refused to return the $175,000 in campaign cash Greene funneled into their coffers,” the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) said in a statement.
According to a report by The Hill, this week, Greene’s since-scrapped plan for a new caucus has caused headaches for Republican House leadership.
“This is a modern, decaf version of the KKK – a group designed to elevate one race and ethnicity by diminishing all others. It should be summarily dismissed and condemned,” former Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) said.
Greene, raking in $3.2 million in the first quarter, despite being stripped of her committee seats, has emerged this year as among the most prolific fundraisers for House Republicans, The Hill reported.
“America is a nation with a border, and a culture, strengthened by a common respect for uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions,” the America First Caucus platform reads.
“History has shown that societal trust and political unity are threatened when foreign citizens are imported en-masse into a country, particularly without institutional support for assimilation and an expansive welfare state to bail them out should they fail to contribute positively to the country.”
According to a GOP strategist, the idea for the far-right caucus “is complete bullshit and a huge distraction” and “undermines the bigger and more important story here, that there is strong diversity within the Republican Party.”