Rep. Chip Roy Slams ‘Rush Timeline’ To Pass GOP's ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) slams the "rush timeline" to pass the GOP's "one big beautiful bill."

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00:00Some people are saying they might want to lower that Medicaid number to maybe more $500 billion.

00:05That's just a made-up number. I mean, we voted on a budget that said E&C is $880 billion.

00:09So I don't know. Is that just a made-up number? Just like throw it up in the wind?

00:12It sounds like the F-map is off the table, doesn't it?

00:15I mean, I think that's insane.

00:16Then people should say that extending the tax cuts is off the table, if that's what they're saying.

00:20Like, do math. I just want people to do math. That's all.

00:23And, you know, look, we're talking about Obamacare expansion.

00:26And by the way, these are all people who voted for, you know, did not vote for the Inflation Reduction Act,

00:31and yet they're balking at amending the Inflation Reduction Act,

00:33who largely didn't vote for Obamacare, who are now saying,

00:36oh, we can't touch the Obamacare expansion population.

00:38Like, it's mind-boggling. But, man, they love their tax cuts.

00:41They love extending their tax cuts and then saying, oh, but don't worry.

00:45The math will all just work out, wink, wink.

00:47No, you've got to do the spending side.

00:49So you would be opposed to finding a number below $880 billion for E&C?

00:53I mean, it all depends on the tax side.

00:54I mean, look, I'll take whatever cut I can get, but then don't go try to sell me the tax numbers.

00:59They don't add up.

01:00The reason we got comfortable, reluctantly, before Easter with the budget

01:04was a promise-slash-guarantee of putting these things on the table,

01:08came out of the White House, came out of the Speaker's office,

01:11came out of the Majority Leader's office in the Senate of a trillion-and-a-half-type levels,

01:15and those numbers gave us some belief that maybe we're serious.

01:18Look, by the way, we're having very serious conversations that we should be having.

01:21But I think the rush timeline is creating a bit of chaos that was unnecessary.