Chip Roy: “I respect the gentleman from Tennessee, and I appreciate the cuts as I already stipulated. I am glad to see it reduced…”

“I respect the gentleman from Tennessee, and I appreciate the cuts as I already stipulated. I am glad to see it reduced by $1.5 billion. I still say that is $2 billion too many. I don't even know where we are getting the $2 billion. I won't engage the gentleman on that, but nobody on this floor can tell me where we are getting the $2 billion. Mr. Chair, do you know what we are really doing? We are borrowing money from China. Believe it or not, in the appropriations bill this last go-round, we actually subsidized China. We borrow from China, we pay interest, and then we turn around and we subsidize China. That is what the geniuses of the congressional body do for the American people while we rack up $35 trillion in debt. Let's move off of the fanciful, radical climate agenda that is destroying American entrepreneurial capability and abilities and driving down prosperity, and let's move straight on to debt. What in the hell are we going to cut if you can't cut this? Who on this floor is going to stand up and talk about Social Security and Medicare and everything else? No. Everybody is going to preen and posture about it. Meanwhile, we are destroying the greatest country in the history of the world by putting a tax on the American people in the form of what? Inflation. We are killing our own country while we spend money. Mr.…”