'Why The Hell Should I Subsidize Their Stupid Decisions?!': Chip Roy Rips Blue State SALT Demands

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During remarks on the House floor on Friday, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) voiced his objections to President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill.

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00:00So now what's going to happen?

00:02Well, there's going to be a lot of posturing over the next week.

00:07Here's something that everybody should get a bit of a chuckle out of.

00:11We had to pass the budget right before Easter.

00:16We had to pass the bill right before Memorial Day.

00:22Now we are supposed to pass the final bill, get it through the Senate by July 4th.

00:30We had to pass the government funding bill right before Christmas.

00:36Speaker knows.

00:38Now why do you think that is?

00:39Do you think that's just because everybody goes,

00:42well, wouldn't it be nice to do that right at those great holidays?

00:46No.

00:48Something called jet fumes.

00:50Every member of Congress has a trip.

00:54Personal, business, corporate, whatever.

00:57I mean, not corporate, government.

00:58They're going to go take a trip.

01:02So they always want to have these bills right before that.

01:06So everybody comes in and goes, yeah, yeah, I'll vote for it.

01:09Let's get out of that.

01:10Boom.

01:11They get out of town.

01:14So here we are.

01:15And over the next week, there's going to be an enormous amount of pressure

01:18brought to bear from the White House, from our leadership on both sides to get in line

01:28and to say, we've got to pass it.

01:32If we don't pass it, the taxes are going to go up.

01:34If we don't pass it, we're not going to get the border funding.

01:37If we don't pass it, there's going to be, we don't have a debt ceiling increase.

01:41And, oh man, the bond markets are going to freak out.

01:45We're not going to default on our debt.

01:48We're not going to let taxes go up in the end before this year is over.

01:52They don't go up until December.

01:54We're going to do what we need to do on the border.

01:58I'd like to do it in this bill.

01:59But I'm not going to do it in this bill if this bill is adding to the debt,

02:04not doing what it needs to do on the Green News scam,

02:07not doing what it needs to do on Medicaid,

02:09not doing what it needs to do on countless other issues.

02:14I'm not going to do it if it's going to be a big giveaway

02:16to blue state tax jurisdictions,

02:20state and local taxes, where they want my friends in this conference

02:23who represent big tax states like New York, California,

02:27ooh, they want a bigger deduction for their state taxes.

02:31Why the hell should I subsidize their stupid decisions in their states

02:35for their expensive taxes?

02:38Why should my constituents have to do that?

02:44Why should we continue to allow food stamps to go to the able-bodied?

02:48Why should we continue to have Medicaid go to the able-bodied

02:52and not have work requirements

02:54or not deal with the money laundering scam?

02:58Why shouldn't we, by the way, have health savings accounts?

03:00The Senate bill took our health savings accounts

03:02out of the House bill.

03:06Why should we continue to have taxpayer-funded sex change operations?

03:11The Senate bill puts that back in.

03:13Why should we not tax these big university endowments,

03:23these universities that are engaging in political activism,

03:28taking massive federal money and federal student loan support?

03:32Why shouldn't we tax them?

03:33The Senate reduces our tax on university endowments

03:37to raise revenue by 20%.

03:40Why shouldn't we stop China from getting taxpayer dollars

03:47through the Green New Scam subsidies?

03:51Our bill prevented China from getting rich off of our tax dollars.

03:55The Senate bill takes it out.

03:57Why?

03:59Why?

04:03Why shouldn't we tax the remittances of illegal aliens

04:07sending money back to their home countries?

04:10Our bill did that.

04:12The Senate bill takes it out.

04:18We are at a critical juncture in our history as a country.

04:22And the question here is will Republicans step up

04:29and put forward transformational reform

04:33when they've got the majority in the House,

04:35the majority in the Senate,

04:37and they've got the White House.

04:39Will we deliver on the President's agenda responsibly?

04:45Will we actually take this moment

04:47to change the trajectory of debt

04:50that's killing our country for our kids and grandkids?

04:54Or will we continue the same game

04:56of tax cuts for everyone

04:59but spending and more spending for everyone?

05:04We can't keep doing the same thing.

05:07We can't.

05:08I know the American people are frustrated.

05:20I know they expect us to deliver.

05:23And we must deliver.

05:25Failure is not an option.

05:28But we shouldn't deliver for the sake of it.

05:31We shouldn't pass a bill just to check a box.

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