Chip Roy: “I thank the gentleman for yielding. There is a lot of noise in this town right now about government shutdowns, and the…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. There is a lot of noise in this town right now about government shutdowns, and the fact is, the issue isn't about shutdowns. It is about whether or not Members of this body will continue to use money we don't have to fund mandates, indoctrination, and the use of force against our citizens: $73.5 billion for the Department of Education that subsidizes the indoctrination of our children with critical race theory and woke gender ideologies; $10 billion for an FBI that was just used by the Attorney General of the United States to target parents; $50 billion for a Department of Homeland Security that leaves our borders wide open, empowering cartels because Secretary Mayorkas fails to execute the laws of the United States; $6 billion for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases run by Dr. Fauci. Need I say more? $592 million for OSHA, which has imposed an unconstitutional vaccine mandate on 84 million Americans. I offered an amendment to strip any funding from this bill that would fund Federal vaccine mandates, and it wasn't even able to see the light of day. This is about a Congress that is supposed to use the power of the purse, our Article I authority, rather than hiding behind the judges in Article III, to check the executive branch. We have a moral obligation to give voice and representation to the people who elected us whose liberty and livelihoods are being attacked.…”