This Lone Star State lawmaker isn’t pulling punches…
According to a report from Fox News, Freedom Caucus member Rep. Chip Roy (TX-R) is furious with fellow Republicans who are opposing a stopgap proposal to avert a government shutdown.
“If a Republican opposes a 30-day, 8% cut to the non-defense, non-veteran federal government with the best border security bill we’ve ever had attached to it, I honestly don’t know what to say to my fellow Republicans other than you’re gonna eat a s–t sandwich, and you probably deserve to eat it,” Roy told Fox News Digital on Wednesday.
“I’m an equal opportunity basher of stupid, and I think this is stupid.”
From Fox News:
It comes after negotiators for the Freedom Caucus, including Roy, and the Main Street Caucus unveiled their proposal for a continuing resolution, known as a CR, on Sunday night. It would cut discretionary government spending by 8% from current levels, except for the military and Veterans Affairs, and included most of H.R. 2 save for a provision on eVerify.
But more than a dozen conservatives voiced opposition to the deal. Some said they wanted to see commitments on total spending from all 12 appropriations bills to not exceed $1.471 trillion before they would move on a CR.
Many of those holdouts are members of the House Freedom Caucus, of which Roy is the Policy Chair.
Roy told reporters outside a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, “I mean, right now, again, everything is centered on what will be a spending topline and to get appropriations done.”
Rep. Roy unloaded on the steps of the Capitol last week over the GOP’s spending problem.
Chip Roy: “I will not continue to fund the government that is at war with the American people.”
— Ian Jaeger (@IanJaeger29) September 12, 2023
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