Chip Roy Says 'Senate Doesn't Get To Be The Final Say On Everything' In Big Beautiful Bill

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Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) discusses the Big Beautiful Bill.

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00:00To achieve a lot of things that nobody thought we could achieve.

00:02Significant restraint on Medicaid, work requirements, getting in serious changes to the Green News Game subsidies.

00:09I could have a laundry list of things that we did achieve and that I'm proud of achieving.

00:12I just still think the math is off. I think it violates the framework.

00:16I think that the deficits are too high.

00:19I'm sympathetic to the idea of economic growth, being able to adjust some of that.

00:22It's a little bit of modeling, stick your finger in the air.

00:24But we accounted for growth. I think we need more spending restraint.

00:27And I think we need to fix what they did in the Senate that undermines, I think, the improvements we got on the Green News Game subsidies.

00:32So that's where we are.

00:33Are you a no right now?

00:34Yeah, I mean, I voted no on the rule last night.

00:36Not much has changed since 1 a.m.

00:38Congressman, have you heard from the president yet?

00:40I don't talk about private conversations about that.

00:43No, maybe you're right. Just don't.

00:45So, I mean, the Senate would say, you know, you guys can't change this.

00:48I mean, how persuasive is the argument?

00:51Only in Washington is the Senate so arrogant, the House of Lords, that they say,

00:54Oh, well, you know, you can't change this.

00:56I think every legislative body in the world does ping-pong, conferences, and other ways to go about it.

01:01We sent them a product. We liked it in some respects.

01:04Could be better than others.

01:05The Senate has now made some changes.

01:07Some are good, some are bad.

01:08Now we've got to look at the total product and decide what is bad.

01:10It's not take it or leave it.

01:11I don't do take it or leave it legislating.

01:13How about we send it back to them and we say take it or leave it, right?

01:16So the Senate doesn't get to be the final say on everything.

01:18Got to work this out.

01:19The legislative process used to work that way.

01:21It used to ping-pong three, four, six, five, six times.

01:24Go to conference.

01:25You know, the Civil Rights Act was on the floor for three months, I think, in the Senate in the 60s.

01:29So let's just work through the process, right?

01:32What about the president?

01:33I mean, what if the president says,

01:34Well, we're having conversations with the president, you know, on an ongoing basis.

01:38None of that's changed.

01:39Are there enough House members who will vote against the rule?

01:42Right now.

01:43And willing to push this past next week, come back to it, we have a later date.

01:47Right now.

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