‘I’m SICK Of It…’: GOP Chip Roy Fumes At His Own Party After US Midterm Bloodbath

I thank the speaker. I thank my friend from Arizona who's now leaving the floor. I thank him for his service. And again, I hope to be down here on the floor with him again. And look, I want to thank the American people. The American people sent a loud message last week that this town is not getting it right. And the election didn't go as I would have preferred in a number of respects. There are a lot of good people in this chamber that are going to be going home and no longer serving in this institution, at least not in the 120th Congress. But I will tell you that I do not direct my ire or my frustration at the people, because I think the people were trying to send a loud message, as they have been now for several cycles, that this town is not doing what it's supposed to do. And I've given speeches on this before. I've tried to work across. The aisle where I've tried to work within the conference as Republicans to actually address the concerns and the needs of the American people and do our job in a Republican form of government to actually follow the Constitution, to actually address unlimited spending and the national debt of $42 trillion, to actually secure the border of the United States, to actually put in place permanent reform, to actually stand up for the hardworking men and women of this country who actually make this world work. And look. I've got something here that I want to read, and I'm going to paraphrase. It was a tweet that I think captures, and it was tweeted on Election Day, that captures part of the problem. This individual tweeted out the following. Every GOP strategist, consultant, and candidate should be forced to participate in a role-playing exercise this morning. Your name is Bob. You're a 49-year-old blue-collar worker in Ohio. You've always struggled to make ends meet. The good jobs were all shipped to China, and the few remaining pay a pittance wage undercut by endless illegal labor. You're a three-time Trump voter because you believed he would finally make America great again. You put your son through Ohio State. He graduated cum laude in computer science. You couldn't have been prouder. After months searching, he landed an entry-level job at Microsoft. Beneath his qualifications, but a good start for a smart kid. Then he got laid off. That same month, Microsoft applied for 150,000 more H-1B visas because it can't find, quote, qualified Americans. Your son has spent six months back in his childhood bedroom sending hundreds of applications without landing an interview. On TV, Trump boasts about the greatest economy in history and how many women and minorities are finding jobs. You decide a father-son stake might make cheer him up. Gas is $4.50 a gallon. Filling your truck costs $100. At Kroger, ribeyes are $30 a pound. You settle for a hamburger even though 70, 30 ground beefs still cost $10. At checkout, some person is screaming at the cashier because her EBT will only cover most of the filet mignon and lobster in her cart. You think to yourself how the Iran war has made everything expensive, but at least we're stopping their nuclear bomb. You weren't even sure where Iran was before you Googled it after first bombed them in March. After dinner, you take your son to the country fair. Half the people aren't speaking English. Virtually none of the crowd looks like you. You're forced to leave early after a teen takeover turns violent. A foreign-born judge pledges none of them will go to jail. Back home, you turn to the TV. Vivek Ramaswamy is lecturing the crowd about American mediocrity and why Ohio needs more foreign talent. Your son grows upset. You change the channel. Now a Republican surrogate, the daughter of a governor or wife of an elderly billionaire, explains that young white men are the real welfare queens. They'd rather play video games in their parents' basements than work. Your son says nothing. He just goes back to his childhood bedroom. You turn off the TV. Then your neighbor starts blasting reggaeton and cracking open, cracking open Modelo's. He brought his cousin's family from Mexico to help with all the minority business contracts as construction firm keeps winning. You sit alone in your living room. You worked hard. You paid taxes. You obeyed the law and you raised your son to do everything right. You voted Republican again and again because you believe somebody in Washington would finally fight for you. Instead, your wages are stagnant. Groceries are unaffordable. Your community is unrecognizable. Your country is fighting another foreign war. And upstairs, the son you sacrificed everything for is lying awake in the bedroom he slept in at 12, wondering what the heck is he even supposed to do with his life now, and whether, I'm going to paraphrase, he can achieve the American dream. Every time you turn on the TV, the Republicans you elected are either congratulating themselves or explaining why you and your son are the problem. For 10 years, they told you America's future depended on your vote. Now you aren't even sure America has a future worth defending. The Republican Party needs to answer one simple question this morning, and that was on Election Day. You've spent a decade demanding Bob's loyalty. You've given him stagnant wages, unaffordable groceries, another foreign war, and a son who did everything right but can't find work. And when they complain, you call them lazy. What possible reason have you given Bob and his son to vote Republican? Do you honestly think you deserve their vote? Now, you don't have to agree with this individual. You can think this individual's coming from a limited perspective in Ohio versus some other part of the country. And that's just one person. But I'm here to tell you that he's speaking for an entire nation of people tired of a town that they perceive rightly as being in the hip pocket of too much of the oligarchy and too much of the billionaire and ruling class, or as my friend Jeff Sessions used to say in the Senate, the masters of the universe, the people who make all the decisions. People are sick of it, and they're right to be sick of it. They've been listening to people give speech after speech, including me, talking about these things and wondering when they're going to get their country back, when they're going to be able to achieve the American dream, whether their kids and their grandkids can achieve the American dream and afford it and afford to live. And to like living and living in a community of people that they can share life, laugh, enjoy, go to concerts, go to sporting events, and have a community of people of like mind without wondering whether they're going to get shot or whether the next cartel violence is going to come in or whether there's going to be a whole new community from a whole other country, the whole other language coming into their community and changing it overnight. You say, oh, Chip, man, that's just, you can't say things like that. Who are we as a people, and what is it that we're defending here in the House chamber, in the people's house? Because I can tell you one thing, I'm sick of it. I'm sick of it. I just watched Republicans get crushed in Texas, in a Republican state, because the people that run that state lost sight of the people. They nominated at the top of the ticket somebody who is on paper and very clearly and obvious to anybody watching it, corrupt. Somebody who was a massively flawed candidate and then had donors spend $500 million trying to shove across the finish line, taking away dollars to support other candidates. Why? Sending good money after bad to try to win a seat while failing to acknowledge the corruption. And then wondering when you look at Washington and you hear Cali Means talking about how we can't get a MAHA agenda accomplished because the powers that be and the corporate interests in this town were too cozy with people in the administration to allow it to occur. You see people talking about data centers and AI and the need to beat China. And then you watch NVIDIA's CEO embroiled in scandal and you see how everybody's patting each other on the back, helping each other in the billionaire class and the ruling class, gathering together. And the average American sitting in their hometown going, I don't want a data center in my backyard that's going to suck up my water and my electricity, that is going to be processing computing that addicts my children to porn and sports gambling while we ruin college sports and all the things that we enjoy on the weekend to take a break from this godforsaken political ruling class that's sticking to us again. That's what's happening. That's what's real. And I listen to politicians on both sides of the aisle just blithely ignore the plight of the hardworking average American right now wondering what's happening. I've got colleagues laughing off, oh, don't worry, it's not the war. Neocons, whatever it is, are saying, we're always at war, we've got to be at war. They're wrong. They're wrong. But I also have colleagues who think it's just the war, who think it's just because of Iran, otherwise everything would have been hunky-dory. Well, you're an idiot too. You're not opening your eyes to what the average real American's feeling. You can't just dismiss and say, oh, pay the higher gas prices so we can beat Iran. You have to earn it. With all due respect to the president, with all due respect to every vote we've taken on the floor of the House on war powers put forward by my colleagues that put us in the defensive posture of having to vote against our troops in the field that the commander in chief has put in the field, the president never came to us and asked us. Congress wasn't put into the position as it is supposed to be in the Constitution and the Declaration of War. We never had that conversation. We never earned the people's backing to send our blood and our treasure into Iran for our national security interests, even if the case is strong to do it, even if cutting the head of the snake in Iran is worth it, even if knocking out the proxy terrorists is worth it. Even if taking out their nuclear capability and conventional capability is worth it. It might be, but you have to earn it. You have to explain it. You can't decide it by edict from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. We don't work that way. And you can't come down here, pass the big, beautiful bill, which had good tax cuts in it, good spending restraint in it, good repeals of subsidies to align myself with my friend from Arizona, how subsidies distort prices and make energy more expensive. We passed a great bill. Didn't campaign on it, immediately turned towards our own political interest in passing redistricting plans across the country, including Texas, spent our time trying to focus on political power rather than focusing on the people who send us here to represent them. That's what happened, and it pisses me off. The arrogance, the arrogance of the powers that be, the masters of the universe who tell you that that's what you have to do. And when you pursue political power over the people, you lose. And that's what happened. That's what happened. And it's not just the concerns about the money floating around in AI and data centers. It's not just the concern that Cali's raising about Maha, whatever's going on at the Kennedy Center and the grift, whatever's happening with ambassadors to Greece and the grift. Whatever's happening with numerous people, you go down the line, and as I said, putting at the top of the ticket of the biggest Republican state in the nation, someone who was indicted and impeached by the Republican Texas House. Somebody tell me why Republicans lost last Tuesday. I'll say it's because they were focused on themselves and the ruling class and not the people. Founders gave us a system that does put the people first. And when politicians forget that, they rightly get sent home. I'll be leaving the House come January. I'm going to stay in the fight because it's a fight that we have to have. This is a country worth defending. This is a country worth saving. Texas is a state worth defending. My children are worth defending. But we've got to decide what it is we're fighting for. I believe in something I call community conservatism. I believe you've got to put God at the center of your communities. Yes, God. The same God that Moses, looking over the chamber here, Came face to face with. The same God that is in God we trust sitting over the speaker's chair. The same God that this country pledges our allegiance to the flag in recognition that it is a nation under God. The same God that the founders of this country recognized when they founded the country, when they adopted the First Amendment, and they understood that we were a Christian nation built on Judeo-Christian values and that our beliefs matter, that community matters, that who we are as a people matters. No one stood on the wall of the Alamo shouting, I want 3.9% economic growth. We're a nation. We're not an economy. None of the founders were running around talking about earnings per share or what Wall Street was doing. None of the people that signed their death warrant, pledging their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor were doing so for corporate interests. And so corporate boards could tell their great, great, great, great grandchildren. That there are six genders, or that they've got to get in line with some corporate interest, or they've got to work for the profit of some billionaire over them. The people, the people right now are not in love with either party. Democrats who right now think they're all fired up, that they're on some sort of wave. No, sir. Republicans who think they've got all the answers. Oh, if we'd have just not done Iran, man, we were just sailing along. No. It's the people who are tired of seeing corporate crony government interests steamroll their way of life, steamroll their community. I'm tired of living in the hill country and looking across the great beautiful land that God gave us with 150-year-old live oak trees getting plowed for another target. Oh, but Chip, that's capitalism. Why are you complaining? Capitalism has to exist in our communities. We are a people, a people entrusted Over this earth that God gave us, we were given dominion over it. We're supposed to care for it as conservatives. We're supposed to care for our communities, care for our families, not ship our parents off to a nursing home while we bulldoze another live oak tree for another shopping center with another freaking mattress for a minute, which by the way, has to be a front for something. But these things are changing who we are. That's not who we are. Mom and pop shops can't compete with the lawyers who know when the next road is going to go in and the next thing is going to be taken with eminent domain and the next data center is going to get put in so that H-1B workers can fill the workers and that, as I said, you can be addicted to porn and sports gambling. The American people are sick of it. They just want their community back. They just want their lives back. They just want to laugh again, enjoy again. You know the best time we've had as a people? In the last decade was probably in a roughly the two or three months of the shutdown during COVID. Truly, do you know how many families I talked to that were like, I'm sitting down at dinner again with my family. We're talking, we're playing board games. We're at home or we have friends over. If any party, Republican or Democrat, independent or new party or otherwise, wants to have power in this country. I don't know why you want to have power if you're not trying to build a better life. You've got to start with the people. Look, I can sit here. And tell you, and talk to you, as I did during the campaign, campaigning for some of my colleagues, I wasn't on the ballot in the general election. By the way, I wasn't on the ballot, if you're watching this on C-SPAN and someplace not in Texas, I wasn't on the ballot in the general election because I ran for attorney general of Texas in a primary where my opponent spent $22 to $25 million of his own money, backed by the powers that be, including lieutenant governor, in Texas, saying I wasn't MAGA enough. I wasn't Trump enough, a member with arguably the most or one of the most conservative voting records in the House of Representatives, not just now, but in history, a member who with all of his flaws, all of his faults, which are many, could hardly be criticized for not being conservative enough. Now, that's fine. God is good. I went through cancer, so I don't really care about having political office. But truth has to matter. And who we are as a people and who we are as a The party has to matter. I can tell you that I'm proud of What we did in restraining $1.7 trillion in mandatory spending cuts. I can tell you that I'm proud of undoing half or more of the green new scam subsidies that are driving up our energy prices. I can tell you that I'm proud of... putting in the biggest welfare reform we've put in place since the 1990s. I'm proud of putting money aside for defense so we can pull it out of the political operation to try to modernize defense. I'm proud of putting money into securing the border of the United States and stopping the bleeding that was occurring under the Biden-Mayorkas regime. I'm proud that we protected life and pulled funding away from Planned Parenthood. I'm proud that we stood up in defense of the Second Amendment to take away the tax on our firearms. I am proud of those things and more. I'm proud of the Lake and Riley Act, which included a provision called the Sue Act that we fought for to ensure that states can sue the federal government if the federal government abandons its job to secure the border in the future. Every one of those things I just described to you that were good, that are worth applauding, were all fought for by something that the cynical political interests in the White House started dubbing as the, quote, 2 a.m. caucus, including, I might add, the vice president. And that would be the House Freedom Caucus, of which I'm a proud member. And I just want to say for a minute, if you think that the things I just outlined were good, I do. Every single one of those things were fought for by the House Freedom Caucus because we stood here in the aisle and we would withhold votes on the special interest-driven legislation to say we want the legislation that people sent us here for this last July. We have not codified or made permanent any of the border security provision the president has been putting in place as an executive. I believe we should. This Congress had literally not moved a bill to codify border security. So in July, sitting right over here, a handful of my colleagues and myself, we told them to pound sand. We're going to kill your rules and you're not going to move any legislation. Oh, everybody, oh, there you go again. You guys are not being team players. The White House, oh, we got to move this important, whatever it was, I don't even remember, this important bill. I'm like, well, what about codifying border security? What about making it permanent? So we demanded it, and guess what? Lo and behold, we finally move it through the House Judiciary Committee. So we have the opportunity now to pass it because we forced it through committee. We have 52 days remaining, or 51. We should codify border security. We have 51 days, remember, and by the way, that's my bill that I introduced that reflects what the president has done and what we did in the last Congress and passed the bill to secure the borders of the United States, to stop the abuse of asylum, to stop the abuse of parole. You know what else we can do? We can pass a congressional stock trading ban. We should do that. I introduced that bill six years ago. I couldn't get it to see the light of day. We had to throw down again and demand that that we get a vote on it, or we would take rules down. In order to pass something that 80% of the American people want to see passed. We should pass it. In this lame duck right now, we should finish the job and pass a ban on congressional stock trading. We should codify border security like I said. We should pass a reconciliation package that reduces taxes for hardworking Americans putting money in health savings accounts so they can use them to go to the doctor of their choice. We should codify a short-term limited duration plan so you have an option in health care rather than being stuck in the terror of Obamacare, which has poisoned and destroyed the affordability of health care. And where were Republicans talking about that the last 18 months? Some of us tried. Some of us tried everything we could, and every time we used the lever of power to get one of the things I just described, to get $1.7 trillion in reductions of mandatory spending instead of the $300 billion we were told by the powers that be, to get the elimination of every ounce of the green new scam subsidies, which we were told we couldn't get. To get the Sioux Act and the Lake and Riley Act, when we were told to sit down and shut up and just accept the bill, they could move through easily, and we said no, and we got a provision that we can use in the future to get H.R. 2 through the Judiciary Committee. These are the things that people sent us here to do and more. Again, all designed to try to preserve and protect our great country. To actually secure it, to ensure that Americans have the ability to achieve the American dream, to stop the flow of people into this country, changing our country, to stop the Islamists who want to destroy it. There is a war being waged against Western civilization, and we're acting like it's not occurring. While we have 53 million people who are foreign-born in our country, 16% of our population, the highest it's ever been, we are watching our country get destroyed from within. Fifteen years ago, This last month, in October, I was fortunate enough to receive the news that the cancer that had been growing in me was stopped. I was cancer-free. My daughter at that point was about six months old. My son was a little over two years old. I was working for Governor Rick Perry. I went on to work for Senator Ted Cruz. At some point, God opened up the door for me to run for Congress, and eight years ago, I ran for Congress, and I've been proud to serve in this body. I am proud of a lot of the things that we've been able to do on behalf of the people who sent me here. So that I can honor my promise to them. This country will crumble from within under her own weight if we do not stand up for the people who sent us here. We're a nation. We're a nation of people. A nation of people who deserve to be defended. And I'm sick and tired of a ruling class in both parties that don't give a rip about the people. I'm sorry. It's just true. I'm tired of the self-dealing. I'm tired of the grift. I'm tired of the money that flows around this town. I'm tired of the steak dinners and the lobby meals and all of the decisions that are made because of money. When I introduced the stock trading ban, I made the decision that I wasn't going to trade stocks. It's pretty brutal. I don't have a big portfolio, but it's just sitting there. But I'm a public servant. I'm not supposed to enrich myself while I'm in this office. The American people don't believe in us. They don't believe in their leaders. They don't believe in institutions. That's why we were thrown out on our rears. If you don't want to have a populist revolution that tears down the institutions, then for goodness sake, have institutions worth being proud of. Have elected leaders worth being proud of. It's not an easy job. These are tough decisions. They are tough questions you have to give and take. I'm not saying anything different. But isn't it time we said enough? How many more of these things where people self-deal, get rich, and then sail off into the sunset after laying waste to your country? Do you have to watch the tweet that I started this speech with? Bob, who's standing up for Bob? I gave a speech on the floor three years ago, I think three years ago, that podium over there, in which I said to the chagrin of many of my Republican colleagues, name one thing, name one thing Republicans have done to deliver for the people. And I got to be honest with you, between excuses out of the Senate, inability to move common sense legislation like congressional stock trading bans, or codification of border security, or limits on future flow after having millions of people come into our country, I still have to ask the question. People expect big things out of this body. Name one thing. I can name a few, but pretty few and far between. I don't know whether I'll speak on the House floor again. It depends on how many more times we meet. I hope I do. But I do know this, my optimism for the future of this country is still strong, and it's strong because of the people. The people reacted, and Republicans need to take note, and Democrats need to take note. My optimism is strong because of God. My optimism is strong because I believe that there is in fact revival moving throughout the streets of this country, that the Holy Spirit is moving, and that people understand that if you keep your eyes fixed on the cross, if you put God at the center of everything Everything you do, if you remember. Our Judeo-Christian Western values that built the greatest nation in the history of the earth, that those things are worth fighting for and preserving. I believe that people know they're sovereign. I believe that people are expressing their will. And I believe we're still in the first stages of a significant revolution to take this country back, and I'm proud to be a part of that. But understand that it's a revolution. It's not a party. The people are sovereign. And those of us who lead this nation, we have a responsibility to build up the institutions that those people will put their trust in. Our churches, our government bodies, our businesses, start with the people, build up small businesses, allow people to achieve the American dream, make housing affordable again, make healthcare affordable again. These are the things that people want us to do. Those are the things that leaders do. And it all starts with God, and it all depends on freedom. With that, I yield back. Subscribe to One India and never miss an update. Download the One India app now.