Chip Roy

But moving forward with a stronger rule of law and to have a better society that is built on our Republican principles here.

And so I think we've got a lot of work to do, but we can do it, and it's worth it.

This is not the nation-building of trying to go build a country over in Iraq for 20 years where you spend $7 trillion and lose 7,000 men and women and 75,000 injuries.

What we're dealing with here is in our Western Hemisphere, in our backyard just south of Cuba.

a country that is rich with minerals, that can be a benefit to our entire civilization over here, but that we need to stabilize.

I think the president is doing the right thing, but it's going to take a lot of work.

This is not easy.

I'm not a big believer in regime change and nation building, but what we're trying to do here is create stability with an important country in the Western Hemisphere that's important to our national security interests.

Well, look, I think this is an important moment, and I think we should recognize that.

And I've been talking about this quite a bit because when I mentioned a minute ago, right, I wasn't joking when I said that those are the listeners out there, the people who focus on this stuff.

They can go do some of this investigative work that helps us with policy because people don't realize that, you know, in a congressional office.

Right.

I mean, I've.

14 or 15 staff.

Half of them are doing constituent services and engagement with my constituents, and you've got a handful of policy people, and you have to do bills every day.

And so it's hard for us to go to the deep dive investigative work.

So when we've got support from the outside, which should have been the media, right?

The media is supposed to be seeking truth wherever it may lead, right, to quote Thomas Jefferson.

They haven't been doing that.

They have been an advocate for radical Marxism and leftism, and now you've got people like Nick who went out and did the hard work