Texas Republican Rips His Party’s Leadership For More Spending at a ‘Greater Level’ Than Nancy Pelosi Did
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) joined Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto on Wednesday to discuss a variety of issues, including the GOP-led House passing a bill to keep the government funded temporarily. Roy had just voted against the bill before joining Cavuto live on air and slammed his own party for continuing to spend at a “greater level” than former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) did.
After a discussion about whether or not Donald Trump and President Joe Biden should debate, Cavuto asked, “While I have you, Congressman, this US House bill that will apparently fund parts of the government and avoid a shutdown.”
“It’s apparently getting more and more support. I don’t know if it’s bipartisan support, but it’s support. What do you think of that? Where are you on this whole avoid a protracted shutdown? Because what we’ve got now keeps us going for another week or two,” continued the Fox host.
“Sure. Yeah, well, I just voted no, and then I ran out here to come do the interview with you. I hope I’m not missing another vote here, but, but, look, we, I don’t know. I mean, look, this bill will spend money that we don’t have, it busts the caps that were passed on a bipartisan basis last year,” Roy replied, adding:
It will not move the important policy priorities that we put in place, for example, in the transportation bill. We had language in there that would have said, you don’t get money if you’re a sanctuary city, and if you have a sanctuary city, you’re not working with Ice. You don’t get the money. So those are the kinds of policy riders that I think should have been a part of this package. Minimal things that would have made this better.
If you’re going to bust the caps and spend money greater than Nancy Pelosi’s levels, I want to be clear. No matter what my Republican colleagues say, we continue to spend money at a greater level. Now, you and I both know we’re racking up $1 trillion of debt every 100 days. We are spending more on interest than defense today. We will be spending $1 trillion in interest in 2026. We have to do something about it. You and I would both agree. Mandatory spending, Medicare, Social Security, we all need to deal with those complicated issues. But how on earth are my colleagues going to say that they’re going to address those issues? If they don’t, if they’re not willing to go take on the easy things like the United Nations or UNWRA and its funding Hamas. So we need to do those things and hopefully we will.
Roy made similar comments on the House floor and slammed his party’s leadership for breaking the spending caps and “then we had the audacity to try to claim to the American people, publicly, that we cut spending. This is what the American people are sick of.”
Watch the clip above via Fox News.
