Rep. Chip Roy on Proposed Debt-Ceiling Deal: ‘The Government Is 40% Bigger than It Was Pre-Covid’

Mike Emanuel: "The deadline according to Treasury Secretary is Monday. That doesn't give you much time."

ROY: Yeah. I mean, they should have thought about that before 104 days went by where Joe Biden didn’t do anything at all and a deal cut going into memorial day weekend without all of us around the table deciding whether this was in the best interest of the United States of America. Just because the swamp is flawed doesn’t mean the average hardworking American should take it on the chin. Why should they accept that we should pass right now. Sweep the Covid money. Sweep the IRS money that was to expand the IRS to go after the American people three to five times more going after minorities and hardworking Americans who are poorer than the wealthy and non-minorities. Why Don’t We take that money. Give Janet Yellen what she needs for breathing room in June and July and pass a responsible debt ceiling increase. I know the “Wall Street Journal” is editorializing in favor of it. Again I know why. They are looking at that time it in terms of these check the box wins. Look at the curve. The American people now, the government is 40% bigger than it was pre-covid. Let’s go back to pre-covid levels of spending. That’s what we asked for. We are not. This deal doesn’t do that.