Chip Roy

with the director of the Office of Management and Budget at the White House, with my friends in the Senate, Jody Arrington, a fellow Texan who's the chairman of the Budget Committee, with whom I worked to get the big, beautiful bill done last year.

We're talking about options.

We want to fund the security needs of the United States fully and not let the Democrats undermine it, and that's our goal, and that's what we intend to try to do.

Well, I think people have seen the dangerous reality of putting people on the streets who shouldn't be there.

And, you know, you see these pendulum shifts.

You know, those were old enough to remember the 80s and early 90s.

We then cracked down on crime.

It was bipartisan.

And we had a relatively safe country.

And then now we've seen this pendulum back.

They've been letting criminals out on the streets.

You know, all of these groups, Arabella, the Soros-funded groups, the Wren Collective, all of these entities that put bad DAs and bad judges in place, they're letting criminals out.

Well, when we fixed it 30 years ago, we had a three strikes and you're out provision, right?

We had harsher penalties and sentencing guidelines.

So what I wanted to do, and, you know, I was a former federal prosecutor, I've watched those get watered down over the last two decades.

But there were some criticisms that I took into account.

For example, people said in the three strikes and you're out, you shouldn't have one of your strikes be a random misdemeanor drug possession or something when you were a juvenile.

And I said to myself, okay, fine.

So let's prioritize the point.

So in the bill that I drafted, I tried to put more emphasis behind a three strikes and you're out regime again to give it more power.