Greg Nash/Pool via AP Rep. Chip Roy is nothing if he isn’t a passionate defender of fiscal sanity, and he let loose on his Republican colleagues on Wednesday. In a speech on the House floor, the Texas congressman named names and articulated why he believes the debt ceiling deal is the wrong path to take.
As RedState reported, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden struck a deal to raise the debt ceiling, with Republicans gaining some modest concessions. In the overall scheme of things, though, the deficit savings were minimal, and the main win was simply slowing the growth of government. A laudable thing given how out of control spending is, but certainly not the resounding victory McCarthy has proclaimed it to be.
Being a high-level member of the Freedom Caucus, it’s not surprising that Roy would take a different view than his party’s leadership. Here’s what he had […]
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