Dallas Morning News: Conservative Firebrand Chip Roy Fights for His Faction’s Influence with Slim GOP Majority
“I’ve been in and out of this town now for 20 years in various forms and fashions, and it’s the same friggin’ arguments every single time: ‘Oh, we’ll do it next year,” Roy said. “It’s like the friggin’ Cubs of the 20th century.”
Washington Examiner: Chip Roy Wants to Take Down Washington from the Inside
“Roy’s policy position in the Freedom Caucus is partially, or perhaps wholly some days, a crusade against what he’s dubbed the ‘Uni-Party.’ ‘The Uni-Party is a collection of individuals who find their way towards continuing to advance the town [D.C.] and the interests of this town over the interests of the country,’ he said. ‘And they do it even while they yell at each other saying how much they’re different. It’s like the omnibus bill last December. We just had an election. Republicans took the House, and these sons of guns passed a $1.7 trillion monstrosity because they could, nothing more, nothing less … to the detriment of the American people.’”
Texas Tribune: U.S. Rep. Chip Roy Helps Bend Powerful House Committee Further to the Right
“… This year’s version of the committee is different because of the noticeable impact of three far-right conservatives — including U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas — whose membership was negotiated as part of the deal to make Kevin McCarthy speaker of the House in January.”
National Review Op-Ed: The Constitutional Case for Impeaching Mayorkas
“In a representative government, our elected officials are held accountable by the people, but those appointed by the president must be held accountable by Congress. The crisis at our southern border has raged on for two years too long, causing havoc and destruction for migrants, Americans, and the rule of law. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas is largely responsible for this, and indeed, he should be held accountable.” – Chip Roy
ABC: Expert: Mayorkas is "Chief Architect of the Worse Border Security in Our Lifetime"
“First it’s going to take more congressional leaders like Chip Roy to do what he did to educate the American people to show just what a liar Secretary Mayorkas is. But Representative Mark Green, Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, he's taken steps too,” he said. “He’s conducted a series of hearings that really has shown Secretary Mayorkas abdicated his oath, abused responsibility, lied to the American people and violated the law over and over again as he's been the chief architect of the worse border security crisis in our lifetime.”
Wall Street Journal: Congress Faces Crunchtime in Fight Over Spending Cuts
“There’s an enormous bloc of us that’s been very clear that we’re not going along with the higher levels, so we’ll see what happens in September,” said Rep. Chip Roy, a chief negotiator on behalf of the House Freedom Caucus, a group of roughly three dozen hard-line conservatives. “All of this would have been a hell of a lot easier if we had set the levels at $1.471 [trillion] without rescissions.”
National Review Op-Ed: The Deadly Costs of Biden’s Israel Policy
“The president of the United States created a moral equivalence between Palestinian terrorists murdering Israeli civilians and the duly elected government of Israel trying to defend them.”
Yahoo News: Chip Roy is Reviving a Ron Desantis Bill to Make Schools Pay for Bad Student Loans
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, will introduce a bill hold universities accountable for unpaid student debt, reviving a component from a bill that Ron DeSantis introduced in 2017 when he served as a member of Congress.
The education bill would require colleges to pay an annual fine based on the overall amount of outstanding federal loans among their students in default — they would be liable for 15% minus the average national unemployment rate for that year. It also features other reforms, including requiring more transparency about repayment rates.