Chip Roy: “On any matter whatsoever. So what I would inquire of the gentleman is does he agree with this: If you go back and look…”

“On any matter whatsoever. So what I would inquire of the gentleman is does he agree with this: If you go back and look about what is going on, everything you are seeing unfold before your eyes, America, is a setup? It is a complete setup. You go back to September, and a block of about 42 of us wrote a letter to the leaders of these august bodies saying, Hey, how about not doing a continuing resolution into the middle of December right before Christmas? How about you not do that because we know exactly what that results in. We sent that letter. What happened in September? A continuing resolution right until the middle of December. Now, you get to the continuing resolution in the middle of December, and there is all sorts of chatter about: Will there be a continuing resolution into early 2023 with a new House majority? Never in the last 70 years have we had a change, a transfer in the majority of the House Chamber and had the Senate do what it did today, which is jam through a massive spending bill with the existing House, soon to be minority, and jam it through. Now, fast-forward to right now, and what do you have? We have this bill sent to us that spends $1.7 trillion: a 10 percent increase in defense spending; $42 billion increase in nondefense spending, which is 6 percent; Ukraine funding of $45 billion; disaster relief funding of $40 billion; and $15 billion of earmarks that I went through and described a little bit ago.…”