Roy looks at the planer schedule if the Republicans sweep in November

Rep. Chip Roy on Tuesday laid out a game plan for conservatives to go to war against the radical left if the GOP gains control of the White House and both houses of Congress in November’s elections.

The policy director of the Republicans of Texas and the House Freedom Caucus said the toughest will have to come down on other Republicans who want to scale back their agenda because of the 60-vote requirement for a majority. legislation in the Senate.

You’re going to have to get over the excuse that it’s going to be dropped on Day 1, which is, Chip, we don’t have 60 in the Senate, Roy said at a Heritage Foundation event on Tuesday. We need to plan now to drive a powerplant on the weak… knee-jerk individuals in Congress who will use 60 as an excuse not to fight for you.

Heritage billed the event at which Roy spoke as Defunding the Left: The Strategy to Save America.

Roy said his priorities in the next Congress are to cut spending to stop funding left-wing policies such as stricter emissions requirements for cars, securing the border and restoring peace through the force-for-l army He said he wants a strong, focused military, used sparingly.

Calling it a third way, Roy said: It is not isolationist and it is not endless wars.

Roy said national defense funding has been wrongly used as an excuse to pursue Democratic spending priorities that conservatives oppose.

By default, we are only afraid and use the national security and defense complex to control everything else, he said. We did it last week with the foreign aid bill, the $95.3 billion emergency supplement that provides aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, and demands that TikTok’s Chinese owners sell the app or face a US ban.

Getting the defense increase was the leverage and the excuse to fund the whole omnibus in the first place without getting the reforms we wanted on any of those other issues, he said. According to Roy, Republicans tell him when the credits are being negotiated: We can’t risk defense.

Well, if that’s what you do, you’ll never change cities, he said.

Roy, among a handful of Republican appointees to the House Rules Committee who have blocked leadership efforts to pass legislation, was unapologetic about breaking the post.

He said it was a huge success that a majority of the House Republican conference opposed the $60.8 billion Ukraine aid portion of the supplement, albeit by a narrow margin with 112 Republicans against and 101 in favor please He applauded the fact that 55 Republicans voted against the rule for floor debate on the package.

And people say, well, Chip, this is breaking the place. Yeah, yeah,” Roy said. “We’ve got to change the way this place doesn’t work.

Reviewing the current Congress, Roy said the Republicans, in my opinion, have kept the ball in our side of the court. Specifically, he said, the GOP has kept non-defense discretionary spending flat and kept amnesty for undocumented immigrants off the table.

All we talked about in the last year and a half was border security, he said. We didn’t make it. But we didn’t allow the Democrats to start moving the ball around the field and have a debate on amnesty. He added: It matters where you set your goal and how you set your mission.

But Roy complained about some areas where he believes Republicans have fallen short. This includes appropriating billions of dollars for the Department of Homeland Security, spending money to provide food, shelter, and health care to illegal aliens, and funding the Pentagon without reducing requirements for diversity, equity, and inclusion, which he said they are bringing morale down. of the Department of Defense.

Roy said the biggest challenge for the Conservatives is to reverse the policy trajectory championed by a tiny little enclave of elites who use an enormous amount of money to disrupt this great country.

He said these policies are driving up the cost of everyone’s lifestyle and making it impossible for the hard-working American to figure out how to achieve the American Dream.

Roy said the answer is to use the power of the purse.

Literally stop writing the check and then you can eliminate this growing and obscene government that is killing the American dream for the average American,” he said.