During debate on the House floor, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) spoke in support of a continuing resolution put forth by House Republicans to avert a Friday's government shutdown deadline.
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00:00The gentleman from Texas is recognized for five minutes.
00:03I thank the gentlelady.
00:05So here we are again.
00:08My colleagues on the other side of the aisle who constantly always talk about the need
00:13to support a CR to, quote, keep the lights on, now find themselves in the curious position
00:18of not wanting to have the lights on because they don't like what's happening.
00:23So they don't want the lights to be on because you've got people in the executive branch
00:26who have taken seriously the election mandate that was given to the President of the United
00:31States to end the absurdity of nonstop wasteful spending, the ridiculousness of expenditures
00:38like $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru.
00:43That's the kind of stuff that make the American people's head explode.
00:47And there are dozens, hundreds of these examples.
00:49I could sit here and list.
00:51And the fact is this stuff is getting exposed in real time.
00:55The American people are seeing it.
00:57And now my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are trying to run from it.
01:03That's why they don't like this bill.
01:05That's why they don't — that's why they want to have a shutdown after all of these
01:08years of decrying the possibility of shutdown.
01:10You're seeing all of the news today talking about the possibility of a Schumer shutdown.
01:15You're talking about — there's news article after news article.
01:18The Hill, February 11th, Democrats step up talk about using shutdown as leverage against
01:23Donald Trump.
01:26Democrat senators who request anonymity said that March 14th deadline may be the best leverage
01:30they have.
01:32Democrats in Congress see potential shutdown as leverage to counter Trump, U.S. Congress,
01:36The Guardian, February 15th.
01:38I could insert into the record dozens of these stories.
01:41Because the fact of the matter is, the gig is up.
01:45Much like the American people were able to see the absolute rampant corruption in our
01:48education system during COVID, when everything was shut down and they were watching their
01:52kids and they saw these screens and they said, what on earth are they being taught?
01:56And suddenly the American people saw the reality of our broken education system.
02:00They saw the fraud that was perpetrated by Anthony Fauci on the American people and shutting
02:05down their way of life.
02:07And now you've got Democrats who are now being exposed for having continuously funded this
02:11largesse and this bureaucracy that is completely indefensible.
02:15The American people are tired of having their tax dollars taken and dollars being borrowed
02:20by an endless stream of borrowing by this Congress.
02:24And now you've got a Congress that is willing to work with a president to stop it, to stand
02:29up and say enough.
02:31And what are we putting in place?
02:33Oh, the horror, a spending freeze?
02:36Oh, can you believe it, that the federal government might need to tighten its belt and have a
02:40spending freeze?
02:41And then my colleagues on the other side of the aisle want to bring out these parade of
02:45horribles and somehow that is a massive number of cuts.
02:48It's only in Washington, is that a cut?
02:50When you've got a spending freeze and holding basically spending in check for 2024.
02:57And we have a bill that, by the way, pulls out earmarks, which are often replete with
03:02special wish lists.
03:03By the way, that's both sides of the aisle.
03:06And we've got a bill here that is going to hold spending in check to allow us to do our
03:11job for the fiscal year 26 appropriation cycle between now and September.
03:16By the way, it was Republicans who passed five appropriations bills off of the House
03:19floor last year and 12 appropriations bills out of committee last year.
03:23The previous year it was Republicans who passed seven off the floor and all 12 out of committee.
03:27The Democrat-led Senate passed zero.
03:31You want to know why we are where we are right now?
03:32It's because our Democratic colleagues in the Senate passed zero appropriations bills,
03:36not one.
03:38So we came in here, now Republicans have control of the House, the Senate and the White House,
03:42and now we're trying to get things moving in the right direction.
03:45And our Democrat colleagues don't want to have any part of it.
03:49So we're putting forward a common-sense measure that, look, I understand why some of my conservative
03:55flank fiscal conservatives have concerns about a CR.
03:58I don't love CRs.
04:00But when you can have a CR that extends spending at 20-24 levels for the next six months and
04:07empowers the president to be able to continue to do what they're doing, shining the light
04:10on spending restraint, shining the light on waste so that we can do our job and implement
04:16that.
04:17And by the way, I'll say that to both sides of the aisle.
04:19Both sides of the aisle need to take in that information and implement it when we do appropriations
04:24this year, move spending down, eliminate the waste, try to do something about the fact
04:31that in 2019 our entire budget was $4.5 trillion, today it is $7 trillion.
04:38My colleagues on the other side of the aisle have no answer to that besides, oh, oh, magic
04:42tax cuts.
04:43You could literally confiscate the wealth of the wealthiest 1 percent of America and
04:48not dent what we've got in terms of $36 trillion in debt when you would kill jobs and destroy
04:53the economy in the process.
04:55But that's the only answer my colleagues have to $7 trillion in spending.
05:00The fact of the matter is this CR is responsible, it's fiscally appropriate, it'll leave the
05:05lights on so that the President and DOJ and Elon and Russ Voter and OMB can do their job.
05:10And I hope that my colleagues on this side of the aisle will support the rule.
05:13I yield back.