Chip Roy: “I would just add that we are talking about, again, decisions we make with the money that we are taking from taxpayers…”

“I would just add that we are talking about, again, decisions we make with the money that we are taking from taxpayers, printing and borrowing to the tune of a trillion-dollar-plus deficit every year. I started this by saying when I ran for office 5 years ago for the first time, our national debt was $21 trillion. Today, it is $31 trillion--$10 trillion in the mere 5 years since I have been here, $2 trillion a year, my friend from Pennsylvania. But we keep funding this stuff. This is the nexus I want the American people to understand. The deficit spending isn't just about the deficits. The deficit spending is why our Nation is being torn apart. We are supposed to be able to agree to disagree. We are supposed to be able to have 50 laboratories of democracy sewn together under a commonality, defending ourselves and having an economy that functions. Instead, we are funding the bureaucrats that are ripping us apart, thread by thread, IRS agent after IRS agent, FBI agent after FBI agent. I say that as someone who worked in the U.S. Attorney's Office with great men and women in the FBI, whose father was an IRS agent. My father worked for the Internal Revenue Service as an auditor. I have no problem with how we try to set these things up to work.…”