Chip Roy: “I think there is a theme for this administration, and this…”

On the recordOctober 21, 2021

I think there is a theme for this administration, and this administration's theme is paying people not to work. In this case, they are paying people not to build a fence, despite the fact that the taxpayers of this country have paid for a fence that would actually do the job of stopping the flow of people who want to come across this country and, in many cases, bringing fentanyl, bringing dangerous narcotics, harming the American people, and harming themselves. Yet, we can solve the problem but refuse to.

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Chip Roy

Republican · Texas

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Oct 21, 2021

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