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Chip Roy: “Look, my point is--if we want to go around on this, and I will use my five minutes. I am not going to go over because…”

On the recordMay 23, 2023
Look, my point is--if we want to go around on this, and I will use my five minutes. I am not going to go over because out of respect for the time--that those tax subsidies--I hear my Democratic colleagues saying, well, we need tax increases, we need revenues when we are talking about this debt ceiling debate, yet the primary driver of what they are trying to do are tax credits and tax subsidies to the wealthiest among us and to the corporations, in this case, tax subsidies to corporations to promote an agenda.
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Chip Roy
Republican · Texas

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Chip Roy criticizes the focus on tax increases while wealthy corporations benefit from tax subsidies.

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