Chip Roy

If people want a filibuster, they can, but they'll have to stand up and talk and keep talking.

You have to force a talking filibuster.

You have to force a talking filibuster.

The only thing between us and passing any measure at 51 votes in the Senate is the will to do it and having the 51 votes.

The only thing between us and passing any measure at 51 votes in the Senate is the will to do it and having the 51 votes.

Great to be with you.

Sorry to step out of our competing day we have with the president.

Had to give you all a call, but great to be on.

Yeah, I mean, look, what we're seeing there is the inevitable outcome of two things, a very broken immigration system, both legal and illegal, that flooded our country, particularly places like Minneapolis, with individuals who are obviously engaging in rampant fraud and taking taxpayer money and basically expanding it and bringing family members over and abusing our immigration system.

But it's also the product of a welfare state that is out of control.

We have been doling out billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars nonstop now for years.

And it was put on steroids under the Biden administration.

And now all of those two things collided to produce this disaster in Minneapolis.

Yes, it's bad in California.

Remember, by the way, last May, June, when we were working to get the big, beautiful bill passed.

Remember those of us who were fighting and saying we needed the Medicaid work requirements and that we needed requirements to clamp down on fraud?

Remember we were being said, well, you're going to take away Medicaid.

You're going to make all these.

No, we were trying to make sure that only American citizens were able to get that benefit through Medicaid.

And we were trying to get rid of fraud.