Rep. Chip Roy

And my colleague, Michael Cloud, a good man and one of the best members of Congress, he's kind of my opposite in terms of his demeanor.

He's Mr. Level-headed and just out there, and he doesn't go to the floor as much.

I'm out there throwing bombs on the House floor.

But we are brothers in our belief in conservatism and limited government.

He's a big champion of banning the central bank digital currency.

Michael came into one of our Republican meetings a few weeks back, and he said to everybody, he said, guys,

The intelligence community never walks in and says, hey, we have all of this power and we are able to use this power to collect lots of information.

And you know what?

Today we've decided we're gonna give back half our power.

Here you go.

That literally never happens.

So we as members of Congress have a duty to require it when we're putting together funding that we're taking from taxpayers and unfortunately borrowing to fund all of this nonsense.

And there's always a reason when your guy is the guy as the commander in chief and the executive branch, then everybody goes, oh, I guess I can't do it.

Let me give you an example.

Jamie Raskin, right?

Very liberal Democrat from Maryland.

jamie puts himself out as a big defender of the constitution jamie was on the floor of the house when we had an amendment vote on a warrant protection on fisa two years ago when joe biden was in the office jamie ultimately didn't vote with us to require a warrant protection amendment because it was joe biden in the in the white house and i'm not like i disagree with jamie and i'm happy to you know punch him on a lot of different issues but i'm not here to

I'm not here to disparage him on that.

I'm trying to make the case there are Republicans right now who are like, well, I guess I've got to be more careful now because our guy's in the White House.

I agree.