Chip Roy

Let's fully fund the security of the United States, which is what the American people want us to do.

Yeah, pretty frustrating for them to dump that bill on us late Thursday night at 2 in the morning vote, by voice vote, by the way, without full disclosure to a lot of my friends who are in the Senate.

And then all of a sudden we're looking at this bill going, look, your message heading out of town is to fund DHS minus ICE and Border Patrol.

And we looked at that and said, look, yes, we want to support TSA.

Yes, we want to support the Coast Guard.

But we're not going to leave ICE and Border Patrol stranded.

Yes, we can go pull some money out of the big beautiful bill to limp through it, but it's not easy to do, and the dollars will run out.

We have a lot of our civilian folks, the support staff, people that were writing into us, calling us, saying, hey, guys, we're left dangling here.

We don't think that's the right way to do business.

So my feeling was – and the Speaker, God bless him, said, nope, the House is going to stand strong.

We're going to fund it all, send that back over to the Senate.

And that's where we stand.

Now, again, we should go back to Washington.

As you guys know, I'm on the campaign trail for Attorney General.

It is in my personal interest to be in the state of Texas, both so I can see my family, but so I can be campaigning.

But my job as a congressman, we need to deliver.

So I'll do whatever we need to do.

I'll fly back up there in two hours if I need to, if the speaker calls us back.

But we ought to get together.

Now, I've been having conversations with him.