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Chip Roy: “Right. If you have an F-250 pickup, right, and you have a crappy, little engine in there that doesn't work, but you add…”

On the recordDecember 12, 2025
Right. If you have an F-250 pickup, right, and you have a crappy, little engine in there that doesn't work, but you add four-wheel drive and leather seats, and you do all this stuff to make it a nice truck, but it has a lawnmower engine in it, would it work? Would it be effective?
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Chip Roy
Republican · Texas

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Using a truck analogy to illustrate a point during a debate.

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