Washington, U.S. – Texas Rep. Chip Roy on Thursday started yelling at his Republican colleagues, shredding them for “never having any ounce of self-respect.”
“You’ve added to the debt since you were given the majority again on November 5th. It’s embarrassing. It’s shameful,” he said.
Adding, “Yes, I think this bill is better than it was yesterday in certain respects. But to take this bill yesterday and congratulate yourself because it’s shorter in pages, but increases the debt by $5 trillion is asinine.”
“I am absolutely sickened by a party that campaigns on fiscal responsibility and has the temerity to go forward to the American people and say you think this is fiscally responsible.”
Below is the excerpt of his full speech…
“When I got through cancer about 12 years ago, I made my promise to my kids that I would do everything I can to save this country.”
“And what we’re doing right now is to continue to double down on the things that are destroying the Republic.”
“We are going to increase the debt ceiling, not just 4 trillion. That’s false. We have spent $4.7 trillion in additional debt in the last 19 months.”
“We’re going to increase the debt by $5 trillion. That’s what’s going to happen right here by Republicans increasing the debt; $5 trillion.”
“And what are you doing in the same bill, $110 billion unpaid for? Because you never have any ounce of self-respect to go out and campaign saying you’re going to balance the budget, and then you come in here and pass $110 billion unpaid on top of the $200 billion you did for WEP.”
“You guys won’t agree with that, but the fact of the matter is $330 billion.”
“Congratulations, you’ve added to the debt since you were given the majority again on November 5th. It’s embarrassing. It’s shameful.”
“Yes, I think this bill is better than it was yesterday in certain respects. But to take this bill, to take this bill yesterday and congratulate yourself because it’s shorter in pages, but increases the debt by $5 trillion is asinine. And that’s precisely what Republicans are doing.”
“I’m absolutely sickened by a party that campaigns on fiscal responsibility and has the temerity to go forward to the American people and say you think this is fiscally responsible.”
“It is absolutely ridiculous. It also turns off PayGo.”
“It turns off the $1.7 trillion in automatic cuts under PayGo because this side of the aisle is profoundly unserious about actually reducing deficits, just as my colleagues, the other side of the aisle, are profoundly unserious about reducing deficits.”
“The entire body, the entire body has been racking up debt for my entire life. $36 trillion, a trillion dollars of interest. We rack up a trillion dollars every 100 days. And what are we going to do about it?”
“We’re going to run around and talk about cutting taxes, but not doing what’s necessary to cut the spending along with the cut taxes.”
“My other side of the aisle, my colleagues will say, oh no, we got to increase taxes, but we’ll do anything to cut spending. And so here we sit in the same mess. And I got to be honest, I want to remind people, this is article one.”
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