Chip Roy Blasts Colleagues in Clash with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins: ‘They Don’t Know What They’re Talking About’

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) blasted his colleagues in Congress who support the controversial Senate border bill on Monday, telling CNN host Kaitlan Collins that “they don’t know what they’re talking about.”

After being asked by Collins, “Why is the status quo better than this bill?” Roy said:

The reality is the backdrop here is really important. We have Ukraine funding as a big part of this $118 billion bill. $60 billion for Ukraine, as well as some other foreign aid, none of which is paid for, and then you slap in $20 billion of border funding, tied to legislation that we find to be problematic. We find it to be problematic on multiple levels. We believe that it is perpetuating the mass migration that this administration has been advancing under Secretary Mayorkas and under President Biden.

Roy went on to criticize a section of the bill which states that the border will be shut down if illegal crossings exceed 5,000 per day, pointing out that 5,000 migrants per day would be around 1.8 million per year.

Collins questioned, “What you just said on that 5,000 number, if this was in place right now, wouldn’t the border be shut down at this moment?”

“No,” replied Roy, to which Collins shot back, “It would!”

Roy insisted, “No, it would set sort of a de facto standard, right? Normalizing about 5,000.”

The congressman argued, “If you set a standard of about 5,000, the cartels will go, ‘Ah, I get it, 4,999, you got it. We’ll process those through.'”

“If it hit that average of 5,000, it would shut it down until it dropped by 75%,” claimed Collins.

Roy snapped, “What I’m telling you is the cartels would adapt! They would adapt. There would be 4,999.”

Collins then said, “I should note the people who wrote this bill disagree with you. They say it would shut down the border right now, including Senator Sinema, who as you know is from Arizona.”

Roy claimed, “Then they don’t know what they’re talking about.”

On Monday, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) defended the section of the bill which would shut down the border if more than 5,000 migrants tried to cross the border per day.

“This provision is getting woefully – and perhaps purposefully – misconstrued,” wrote Sinema in a social media post. “The border automatically closes when migrant ENCOUNTERS reach 5,000. This does not mean that 5,000 migrants are permitted to enter the country every day.”

Watch above via CNN.