Chip Roy
Appearances
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2154 - Stephen A. Smith ATTACKS Me!
Yeah, and look, and I'm always weary, as you are, it should be, we both should be, of the excuses in this town. There's always an excuse not to deliver. What I would push back on people right now is we're delivering. A spending freeze in an inflationary environment is a huge win. Trust me, we budgeted for a freeze in our budget that we passed out a few weeks ago.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2154 - Stephen A. Smith ATTACKS Me!
If you hold spending flat for four years, for example, and while the economy is growing and we grow out of it, you save a trillion dollars over 10 years. In other words, freezing spending and doing our job to get tax policy and regulatory policy to allow, for example, Marco Rubio, just this morning, there's a report that says they're going to cut 83% of the USAID contracts.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2154 - Stephen A. Smith ATTACKS Me!
So I've got conservatives going, why are we going to fund USAID? Guys, we're not. We've got funding in there, but they're going to stop the contracts so we can get that money. And then Russ Vogt can impound that money through the Office of Management and Budget. We think that's constitutional. We'll have to fight that through the courts. But you've got to give us time.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2154 - Stephen A. Smith ATTACKS Me!
You've got to give the president time. You've got to give Russ Vogt time. You've got to give Elon time. This is a win.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2154 - Stephen A. Smith ATTACKS Me!
I do. First of all, for your listeners out there, impoundment, I do believe, is constitutional. I think Congress overstepped its bounds in limiting the president's authority as the chief executive to not spend every dollar. There's no constitutional requirement that he has to spend every dollar a certain way. He's the executive.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2154 - Stephen A. Smith ATTACKS Me!
Secondly, if that fails, if the courts kill that, I don't believe they will, then in addition to, there's rescission authority. Now, we can start rescission, but then that requires 60 votes in the Senate. Or the White House can send us rescissions And then it can go through the House and the Senate at a majority vote, 51 in the Senate. So they're working on that plan.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2154 - Stephen A. Smith ATTACKS Me!
There are other tools that I'm not going to get into right now. I'm not going to get in front of the administration on some of these things that they can do to carry out spending restraint. And then finally, in reconciliation, we have the power to do a lot at a 51 vote threshold.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2154 - Stephen A. Smith ATTACKS Me!
That's why we passed the budget, Jody Arrington, to get Medicaid reform and the things that we need to do to save money while people can maintain benefits, but we can save Hundreds of billions, trillions of dollars if we do our part in that. So this is all part of the process.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2154 - Stephen A. Smith ATTACKS Me!
Thanks, Ben. God bless you. Appreciate being on.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2154 - Stephen A. Smith ATTACKS Me!
Great to be on, Ben. I hope you're well.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2154 - Stephen A. Smith ATTACKS Me!
Yeah, Ben, look, I'm not a huge fan of the kick the can down the road continuing resolution as a, you know, as the best form of government, how we fund our government.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2154 - Stephen A. Smith ATTACKS Me!
But what I do believe is that you've got to figure out how to empower President Trump and Elon to continue to keep the lights on, to carry out Doge, to identify the cuts and the waste that we've been identifying in a mere six weeks, by the way, to add on to what we'd already started doing as fiscal conservatives two years ago through the speaker's fight.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2154 - Stephen A. Smith ATTACKS Me!
You remember with Kevin McCarthy, where we forced a bunch of votes on amendments and started to change this place. Now's our chance to finish the job. This bill freezes spending. It's actually, I think, a slight reduction. I'm still combing through it. We got it Saturday. I think it's a slight reduction, give or take, but it's a spending freeze. It's less than 100 pages or fewer than 100 pages.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2154 - Stephen A. Smith ATTACKS Me!
It has no earmarks. It doesn't allow the defense hawks who really wanted a whole bunch more money to screw up the whole process by throwing a bunch of money in it. And then the non-defense Democrats want more money. So this is a win to keep the lights on for six months for Elon. The Democrats have threatened to shut down so they can stop Elon. So this puts them in a box.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2154 - Stephen A. Smith ATTACKS Me!
It's the most fiscally responsible thing we can do at this moment. But then we'll have to do our job in the appropriations process for this next cycle, which, by the way, this appropriation cycle ends on September 30th. So we've got to get all that passed for FY26 by September.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2154 - Stephen A. Smith ATTACKS Me!
So we should focus on that and then get reconciliation done, which is where we deal with mandatory spending and tax policy. So it's a win. I think the president wants it. We want it. There's a handful of holdouts who are saying, oh, it's not good enough. Guys, this is a win to free spending and to give them power to continue to find cuts and doge.
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
theater last night uh tell us what happened yeah first of all great to be on great to be on the show uh and yeah proud to get out there and try to fight for some level of fiscal sanity i would tell you that i think what we passed last night out of the house of representatives was a very small step but an important step in the right direction what we did and what we passed out of the budget committee on which i serve and the rules committee on which i serve and then the house floor
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
is we set a floor of spending reductions. Now, let me be very clear. This is Washington speak. This is actually reductions and increases. We are not yet to the point where we've embraced the need to have the cuts that reduce the spending. Doge is doing that. We need to in Congress. What we passed yesterday was a reduction in increases in spending, of about $1.5 trillion, a floor.
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
We can go higher. We should. So we actually get the cuts. But then we set that floor in place, and we tied that to the tax policy. We tied that to extending President Trump's tax cuts and then being able to provide additional tax relief. But we put them together so that we can basically be responsible to ensure deficits will go down. We're not where we need to be yet, but it was a step.
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
When you pass the budget, now the Senate has to do it. Once we get those aligned, then we have to do the actual work of reconciliation, where we do all of the votes on the specific measures, the tax policy and the spending. My requirement to my colleagues is we must reduce deficits. We must bring down spending.
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
And we've got to embrace Doge and the discretionary side and make sure that we deliver reduced deficits. This was a step forward. And the drama was there were a few of my colleagues, mostly on the right flank, who wanted more. And you know what? I did too.
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
But I had already basically given my word in order to move this through committee to get the floor and the spending restraint and the tie to tax policy. So a few others fought for some more good things. I think we'll get some good results out of Victoria and Warren Davidson and others that demanded more spending restraint.
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
Yeah, well, there's two reasons. One, members of Congress don't have the courage. And two, Doge hasn't illuminated as many things that we need to cut yet that I think we're going to be able to cut, and I think that's going to happen. A lot of these things are things we know, but until Doge puts it out there, it's harder to get some of my friends in Congress to have the courage to go cut.
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
So what does this mean? You pointed out, so for the average viewer out there, and I think Charlie's talked about this too, pre-COVID, we were spending about $4.5 trillion. This year we're at $7 trillion. Now let me put in context what we passed last night. We passed a bill that will simply reduce the increase in spending by about $150 to $200 billion a year.
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
That is compared to a $7 trillion current spend. At the end of the 10-year budget window, we will have spent $84 trillion. We will have taken in about $60-something trillion for a rough increase in the deficit, more debt of $20 trillion. I'm not painting a great picture yet, am I? I had very serious reservations about moving this bill. But here's why it was important.
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
It set the stage with a floor of spending restraint. It opened the door to reforming Medicaid, which we must do because it is currently being used to scam taxpayers, to give money to able-bodied Americans and illegal aliens at the expense of those who need it the most. We need to reform it. My colleagues who are afraid of that are wrong.
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
And we need to hold our colleagues accountable and discretionary to take the doge cuts like USAID and implement them. Let me remind you, Eli Crane, my conservative friend from Arizona, offered an amendment because all of us knew, all of us conservatives knew that USAID was bad. He offered an amendment to cut it by 50%. Republicans voted for it. 102 Republicans voted for it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
114 Republicans voted against it. That was in the fall of 23. Because of Doge, I think that vote today would be different. But this is what we're up against. I'm answering your question in a long form. That's why it's a problem. We have two and a half, you asked why it went up?
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
Part of that's inflation because of the ridiculous policies under Biden, the energy policies, the big spending, and then it's the spending. And all of that raised it from $4.5 to $7 trillion. Keep in mind, the total spend in 1987 was a trillion dollars. It was $4.5 trillion in 2019. It's already up to $7 trillion. We've got to act.
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
The Senate's going to have to stand up, work with us to actually embrace additional spending restraint.
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
So, first of all, we can absolutely balance the budget with a combination of all of those things, right? The president is correct that we must have economic growth. We must have spending restraint, which I think the president has agreed. He said we must have cuts that will eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse. He talks about repealing the massive subsidies under the Inflation Reduction Act.
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
Those things are absolutely true. We also need to get rid of the regulatory state that is constraining economic growth, right? And those things that are impeding Americans from being able to go produce wealth. But what I would say to this is we have an obligation and a duty to reform Medicaid. Why?
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
Because it was designed as a program to help those who are disabled and, frankly, the people who are not able-bodied, right? That's how it was designed. We have a duty to the extent tax dollars are gonna be committed to that end. Then we have a duty to make sure that's what's done.
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
Most Americans don't know that after Obamacare, able-bodied Americans were given a higher federal matching rate, a higher rate, 90%, The dollars that go from the feds to go say, we're going to go fund Medicaid, a higher rate for the able-bodied expansion population on Obamacare. I think that's wrong. It is being gamed by California.
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
It is being gamed by other states for basically to funnel money so they can get federal money while they overly expand the population. Whereas other states like Texas that didn't expand, we don't have as high of a number. Fascinating. So we've got to fix it. We've got to make sure that only the able-bodied aren't on it and that illegal aliens aren't on it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
And that would be the reforms we need to put in place. And we can do it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
Well, the Senate's going to have to now look at our product. They've sent a version over, their version, which was a skinnier one to deal with border and defense. They're going to look at ours. They're going to try to figure out what they're going to do. My guess is they're going to try to expand the tax side of it, make them more permanent. I support that, however, provided...
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
They also expand the spending restraint side. We've got to do our part. We've got to be honest. We've got to do math. And the singular objective should be to reduce deficits immediately, not based on some future promises. And our budget yesterday was only a step. It didn't get the job done. We have more work to do.
The Dan Bongino Show
Spending Bill Passes House And Everyone Loses Their Mind (Ep. 2440)
Well, I appreciate the sudden religion my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have found on spending restraint and the need to cut spending. I look forward to all the proposals that my colleagues will put forward on reducing significant amounts of spending and waste, fraud, and abuse. And I'll look for that press conference they'll no doubt have sometime this week.
The Dan Bongino Show
Spending Bill Passes House And Everyone Loses Their Mind (Ep. 2440)
I would also note that when we talk about continuing resolutions, what my colleague just failed to mention was the fact that literally every single Democrat voted for the CR that we just had in December, like literally every single Democrat except for one who I think maybe took a present vote. The fact of the matter is it has nothing to do with that.
The Dan Bongino Show
Spending Bill Passes House And Everyone Loses Their Mind (Ep. 2440)
The fact of the matter is for those of us who do not like CRs as a general principle, the fact is because Democrats literally wouldn't pass an appropriations bill out of the Senate, we're left doing the cleanup work of trying to figure out how to move forward while we have an administration that isn't at war with its own people. When the previous administration was
The Dan Bongino Show
Spending Bill Passes House And Everyone Loses Their Mind (Ep. 2440)
blatantly disregarding the well-being of the American people, to have wide open borders, letting fentanyl and letting all manners of evil come into our country.
The Dan Bongino Show
Spending Bill Passes House And Everyone Loses Their Mind (Ep. 2440)
Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Fox News in Complete Panic as Trump Screws Them
Just enacting your agenda and looking for waste is now something that requires a nationwide injunction to stop. Congress has got to step in on this nationwide injunction issue. I think that should be, that's like right up there with election integrity.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MAGA Mike Gets Humiliated by His Own Party on Vote
The Senate sent over a joke and we're going to capitulate to the Senate knowing full well that the Senate instructions carry the day. And we're going to be sitting there in a reconciliation debate where we're going to end up on the short end of the stick, but worse, the American people are going to end up on the short end of the stick because it absolutely increases deficits. No one can deny it.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MAGA Mike Gets Humiliated by His Own Party on Vote
Anyone wants to get in a room and come debate me with a whiteboard, show me the math. At some point, if you're in Congress, pass a math test because the Senate bill doesn't add up. It will destroy this country with more deficits and the inflation tax that is crippling the average American family. I will not vote for the Senate bill.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
House Republicans TANK Trump and Musk Bill and SHAME THEM
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 on certain respects.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
House Republicans TANK Trump and Musk Bill and SHAME THEM
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 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.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
House Republicans TANK Trump and Musk Bill and SHAME THEM
It is absolutely ridiculous.
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To take this bill yesterday and congratulate yourself because it's shorter in pages but increases the debt by $5 trillion is asinine.