Chip Roy: This Is How Big Beautiful Bill Fails To Fully Repeal 'Green New Scam'

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 I'm here today to do that.

00:02I'm here to talk about what has been known now as the One Big Beautiful Bill, which is

00:11in simple speak a reconciliation package which is supposed to be designed to reconcile current

00:19policies, tax and spending to achieve a reduction in deficits or make sure that we're not adding

00:27to the deficit.

00:29So here we are, and the House of Representatives worked together and passed a bill.

00:36We passed a budget, we then passed a new budget, and then we passed a bill.

00:42We sent it to the Senate.

00:44The House bill was not perfect by any stretch of the imagination from my perspective.

00:50The House bill didn't do enough on many things that I think are important.

00:55But the House bill had core components of tax cut extensions for hardworking Americans.

01:02The House bill had core components to give resources to the President, the Administration,

01:11Tom Homan, Stephen Miller, Secretary Noem to secure the border and importantly to remove

01:16people through ICE and enforcement.

01:18The House bill had core components to make sure our defense can modernize.

01:24The House bill had core components, and this is where it gets important, to terminate the

01:33green new scam subsidies.

01:34Not all of them, that's why I said the bill wasn't perfect.

01:38I think we should repeal them all.

01:41Save over a trillion dollars.

01:43Stop subsidizing China.

01:45Stop subsidizing big corporations.

01:48Stop subsidizing unreliable energy.

01:51Stop interfering with the market.

01:55We only terminated about 60 percent of the green new scam.

02:00I think we should have done better.

02:04The House had core components in it to reform Medicaid.

02:07My colleagues on the other side of the aisle are saying we're going to be taking Medicaid

02:10away from people.

02:12Medicaid goes up between 20 and 30 percent under our budget over the next 10 years.

02:17Medicaid, under our bill, would be focused primarily on the vulnerable population more than the

02:25able-bodied.

02:26I think the bill should have gone farther.

02:28I think we should have reformed more of the money laundering scam that the FMAP, seven

02:32times multiple, giving more money to the able-bodied than the vulnerable, to stop the scam that

02:37blue states are taking money from red states and non-expansion states and giving it to hospitals

02:42and insurance companies.

02:44I think we should have ended that, done more.

02:46But we took a giant step forward to have work requirements to ensure that Medicaid could

02:51actually be solvent.

02:53It's gone up another trillion dollars just under the Biden administration in terms of

02:57its overall baseline cost.