GOP Rep. Chip Roy Rants Against His Own Party For Backing Debt-Raising Bill, Trump Calls For A Primary Opponent Against Him

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) condemned his fellow Republican lawmakers during a rant on the House floor after GOP leaders backed a bill that would raise America’s debt by trillions.

Roy said he would never vote to raise the country’s debt limit, as President-elect Donald Trump demanded, without corresponding spending cuts throughout the federal government. 

The Texas representative also serves as a member of the Rules Committee, which controls access to which measures hit the House floor.

Roy continued to emphasize his disdain for the bill while ranting against his own party on the House floor.

“What we’re doing right now is to continue to double down on the things that are destroying the Republic,” he claimed. “We are going to increase the debt ceiling not just [by] four trillion, that’s false. We have spent $4.7 trillion in additional debt in the last 19 months. We’re going to increase the debt by $5 trillion. That’s what’s going to happen right here by Republicans increasing the debt $5 trillion.”

“And what are you doing in – the same bill,” Roy asked. “$110 billion unpaid for because you never have any ounce of self-respect to go out and campaign, saying you’re going to balance the budget, and then you come in here and pass $110 billion unpaid for.”

“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 declared. “It is absolutely ridiculous.”

On December 19, Trump replied negatively to Roy’s speech on Truth Social.

“Chip Roy is just another ambitious guy with no talent,” he wrote in one post. “By the way, how’s Bob Good doing? 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!”

“The very unpopular ‘Congressman’ from Texas, Chip Roy, is getting in the way, as usual, of having yet another Great Republican Victory – All for the sake of some cheap publicity for himself,” the President-elect mentioned in another post. 

“Republican obstructionists have to be done away with,” he claimed. “The Democrats are using them, and we can’t let that happen. Our Country is far better off closing up for a period of time than it is agreeing to the things that the Democrats want to force upon us.” 

“[Joe] Biden is President, and it’s his obligation to properly lead,” he added. “We’re there to do the right thing, and we can’t agree with what Biden and the Democrats are demanding.”

“Weak and ineffective people like Chip have to be dismissed as being utterly unknowledgeable as to the ways of politics, and as to Making America Great Again,” Trump declared. “Put ‘America First,’ and go for the Victory, even if it means shutting the Government down for a period of time. We had an overwhelming Victory just four weeks ago, and we’re not going to let the Democrats forget it so quickly!”

Roy is no stranger to controversy.

In 2019, Roy blocked the passage of a $19.1 billion disaster aid package after House leaders tried to pass it by unanimous consent. By objecting, he prevented the government from releasing billions of dollars of aid that would have gone to victims of wildfires, floods and hurricanes. In 2021, he was fined $500 for not wearing face masks on the House floor.

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