Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) delivered an impassioned speech on the floor of the U.S. House on Tuesday as he hammered the bipartisan support to spend, spend, spend.
For a little reminder, America’s debt now stands at $30.3 trillion, according to usdebtclock.org.
While Roy did hit both sides, he gave special focus to his party as the GOP continues to show no problem with spending other people’s money.
The Congress is now working on another spending bill needed this week to avert a shutdown, as if shutting down our reckless government would be a bad thing.
Roy hit on a few key issues including banning Russian oil, “vaccine” mandates and border security. He said the Republican leadership is making “backroom deals” with the Democrats with no plans on voting on increased efforts to support one oligarch over another oligarch as the virtual signaling of “Russia bad, Ukraine good” continues ad nauseum.
“That is a disgusting display by both sides of this body,” Roy said. “We ought to have a full and open debate on the floor of the House about what we’re doing in sending arms to Ukraine, how much we’re spending, what it means for our involvement, what it means for NATO, what it means for stopping Putin, and stop spending money we don’t have. Stop funding tyranny. Stop forcing Americans to get a jab or lose their job. Stop leaving the border wide open. Stop selling the American people a bill of goods, and I’m looking directly at my party when I say that.”
On banning Russian oil, Roy said his party is cheerleading and going right along with the Biden regime’s agenda while getting nothing for the American people already beleaguered from high gas prices due to price inflation.
“It’s not good enough to ban Russian oil if we’re not going to open up American oil and gas. All we’re going to do is provide more money to Venezuela, more money to Saudi, more money to Iran, but yet that’s being touted as a victory,” Roy said. “And some of my colleagues on this side of the aisle are saying ‘ok, good, oh, this is great.’ But my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, they don’t want any oil. They don’t mind your gas being $4, $7, $10 a gallon. Don’t get played. But my colleagues on this side of the aisle are about to get played.”
And, indeed, they were played on Wednesday when the House voted 414-17 to ban Russian oil. The 17 no votes included 15 Republicans, including Roy, and 2 Democrats.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky), who also voted against it, Tweeted: “Biden has no plan to enable development of traditional domestic energy sources. His plan is to buy oil from dictators in other countries, and to use high gas prices to bludgeon American consumers into adopting a leftist energy agenda.”
Meanwhile, the economies of western nations are plunging into recession. The price per barrel of oil is projected to reach up to $200, according to oilprice.com, and already high food prices will get far worse.
And remember, this is all to support one oligarch over another oligarch in a conflict that is far more complex than “Russia bad, Ukraine good,” and a conflict that remains not our fight.
Regarding “vaccine” mandates, Roy said the Republicans have done “nothing” to help Americans from the tyranny. He previously sent a letter to his party’s leadership, and the GOP remains feckless and worthless.
Roy noted that he spearheaded an effort to stop funding all of the Biden regime’s mandates, and his party failed. Instead, the Republicans in the Senate had the power to stop the mandates last month but instead chose to advance the Biden agenda.
On border security, Roy said his party will lie to constituents by acting like money solves problems when it will make things worse.
“What are you going to do to secure the border? My colleagues on this side of the aisle say, ‘Oh, don’t worry we’re going to give you more money for ICE, more money for border patrol,’” Roy said. “But you know what that does? It makes it worse because you’re funding the processing of people at our border because that’s all the border patrol and ICE are doing.”
Roy added: “But my colleagues on this side of the aisle are going to say, ‘Oh, look at us. We did something for you for border security.’ It ain’t true. It’s going to make it worse, and anybody who’s been to the border, anybody who talks to border patrol, anybody who talks to ICE knows that’s true.”
And where will the extra money for border security go? It’s going to send our border security to secure Poland’s borders.
