Chip Roy: “As the gentleman probably knows, and I am sure he has talked to his own constituents, I have had people coming into my…”

“As the gentleman probably knows, and I am sure he has talked to his own constituents, I have had people coming into my office saying, I don't know what to do. I have served my whole life wearing the uniform, but I don't think it is in my best interest, I don't think it is helping the military, I am not going to do it, and I am getting fired. They have discharged 5,000 Active Duty servicemembers for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine while the Army's recruiting levels, as I have said, are at 52 percent of the 2022 recruiting goal. Forty percent of men 18 to 24 are unvaccinated, the prime recruiting demographic. Service academy applications are down 10 to 30 percent depending on the service academy, and now DOD comes in and says, hey, we need more money for recruiting. Well, how about you stop screwing up? How about you not tuck tail and run from Afghanistan and leave $85 billion behind? How about you stop pumping out woke garbage into the men and women in uniform? And how about you not fire them because they dare to say that they don't want a vaccine? Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry).”