U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman joined President Donald Trump on Tuesday bashing the United Nations over climate change policies, calling them "extreme overreach" and saying she has a duty to "defend America's independence against climate lunacy."

Speaking to the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Trump levied wide-ranging criticism of the international governmental organization and called climate change “the greatest con job ever perpetrated.”

Hageman, meanwhile, introduced new legislation that would prevent U.S. funds from paying reparations for what the U.N. sees as climate change harm stemming from fossil fuel use.

The only exceptions would occur if Congress specifically approves such reparations.

" This extreme overreach threatens Congress’s constitutional authority," Hageman tweete

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