We are not the fringe. We are the base of the party.

This government should be shut down. You want to know why it should be shut down. Because the people in here cannot control themselves. The people in here don`t understand how to balance the checkbook and the people in here do not deserve, deserve the responsibility on how to spend the American people`s money.

We know that Kevin McCarthy has a problem in our conference. He doesn`t have the full support to be speaker.

I just got off a good call with GOP Leader McCarthy. We spent time talking about solving problems not only in the conference, but for our country. I like what he has planned ahead.

Our freedoms are so precious, Steve, that we do not want to lose them. And the only way you get freedom back after you have lost it was -- is with the price of blood. And no one wants a civil war in America.

Shutting the government is not -- shutting it down is not a big deal. Shut the government down because the real world knows how to run without the government. We do not need the government.

Everyone needs to wake up right now. Call your representative, call everyone you can, vote no to this. And any Republican that votes yes to an infrastructure bill that helps Biden pass his agenda when bumbling Biden doesn’t even know what he’s doing, then that Republican is a traitor to our party, a traitor to their voters, and a traitor to our donors.

Marjorie Taylor Greene calling people voting for bipartisan bills traitors.

And I want to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Think about what our Declaration of Independence says, it says to overthrow tyrants.

I have spent most of my adult life fighting invidious discrimination, not because I wanted to or chosen this as my mission in life, it is because I have found myself in positions where I have had an opportunity to make a difference and I have tried to do so.