Rep. Chip Roy:
Lord knows the bill has not gone through the Rules Committee, on which I sit, and it sure as hell hasn’t gone off the House floor, which I certainly have an election certificate to sit on.
The fact of the matter is, they need to come to the table and show us the math. How are they going to balance the tax cuts that they so often want to dole out, but not do the spending reform we need to do when we’re $37 trillion in debt, and the average American can’t afford health care, and the average American can’t afford a car, and the average American can’t afford to live, and the average American can’t afford a house?
And interest rates are going up. And we’re spending a trillion dollars a year on interest because Republicans never met a promise they didn’t want to make without the taxes to actually pay for the promise that they’re delivering to people.
So I would say to my Republican colleagues, my moderate friends, you have a hard wall you have got to get through. And that is me and a bunch of others that believe that our budget needs to balance, the deficits need to go down, and that we need to be honest with the American people. And I’m tired of the vulnerable getting screwed by the empty promises of both Republicans and Democrats who want to try to lie to them and say that they can have this magic fairy dust of government-provided programs which are subpar and then complain when we have $37 trillion of deficits.
We owe our kids and our grandkids better than that. So that’s my answer. Nothing’s off the table, because, if it’s off the table, then I’m off the table.
