‘I Wouldn’t Say That’: Chip Roy Denies Trump ‘Turned On’ Him After President-Elect Says He Has ‘No Talent’ and Will Be Primaried in Next Election
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) denied that President-elect Donald Trump had “turned on” him Thursday after Trump called the congressman “just another ambitious guy, with no talent” and claimed he would be primaried in the next election.
During an interview with Roy on NewsNation’s The Balance, host Leland Vittert read out Trump’s post calling Roy “just another ambitious guy, with no talent,” and saying, “I hope some talented challengers are getting ready in the Great State of Texas to go after Chip in the Primary. He won’t have a chance!”
After Vittert questioned, “Any idea why Trump and Republicans have turned on you?” Roy replied:
Well, I wouldn’t say that. I think, look, the president knows that I support what he’s trying to accomplish, and by the way, look, if I’m ambitious for anything, it’s to actually cut spending and do what we said we would do. After we shined the light on this bad bill, recognizing that they were gonna violate the 72 hour rule which was important for transparency, Elon, Vivek, and others, they all kind of caught up to where a few of us had been, out there saying, “Guys this is a bad bill.”
He continued:
And a good thing happened. A 1,550 page bill dropped to 116 and a lot of bad stuff was taken out. Pause. What will happen is a lot of that bad stuff will get inserted into some crap next year if we’re not vigilant, and number two, just because it’s a 116 page bill doesn’t mean it doesn’t have bad stuff in it. It does. It’s still $110 billion unpaid for, it still racks up more deficit spending, it still turns off PAYGO to the tune of $1.7 trillion of potential automatic cuts, and importantly, it increases the debt ceiling two years, which is probably at least worth $5 trillion with no spending restraint, no structural reforms.
Roy concluded, “I can’t take that back to my constituents. I know President Trump wants it off the table. I agree. But it has to come with spending cuts and assurances that we are going to cut spending, which appropriators don’t want to do.”
On Thursday, Roy tore into his Republican colleagues in a heated speech on the House floor, calling it “embarrassing” and “shameful” that Republicans had added $330 billion to the national debt since being “given the majority again in November 5th.”
“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,” he protested. “It is absolutely ridiculous.”
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