Rep. Chip Roy (R., Texas)—a member of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus—has circulated a letter seeking to build support for a strategy of withholding money for one of the bills, dealing with Department of Homeland Security funding, unless Congress also takes tougher action to secure the southern border.

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, unleashed Tuesday on the border crisis under the Biden administration after men were found crossing the southern border with body armor and rifles. The Texas Republican joined "Varney & Co." to discuss why the federal government has an "obligation" to secure the border and that his state should no longer fund a government "at war with the people of Texas."

Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas is urging his colleagues to leverage Congress' power of the purse to obtain much-needed steps toward border security. "No border security, no funding," Roy wrote in a letter. "Simply put, no member of Congress should agree to fund a federal agency at war with his state and people. We have a moral obligation to protect our states, our nation, and, importantly, the migrant children getting abused from the disaster transpiring at our southern border."

15 Texas Republicans are circulating a letter declaring that the Department of Homeland Security shouldn’t get funded come Oct. 1 without “significant change” along the southern border. The letter repeats a previous version that was signed only by Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas). The added signatures, however, are a clear sign of growing support within the House GOP for using the end-of-September government funding deadline as a possible leverage point to get border and immigration changes.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) faces an internal rebellion from more than a dozen Texas Republicans over funding to the Department of Homeland Security. A group of 15 Texas Republicans wrote in a "dear colleague" letter that their state is "bearing the brunt of a national crisis at our southern border[.]" The lawmakers, led by Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), continued: "No appropriation should fund DHS until the necessary steps are taken to secure the border[.]"

Rep. Chip Roy’s (R-Texas) push to oppose any bill that funds the Department of Homeland Security unless it is accompanied by changes in border policy gained the support of 14 other House Republicans from Texas on Thursday, signaling further funding headaches for Republicans when they return to Washington next month.

Texas Republican Congressman Chip Roy is issuing a challenge to fellow GOP members as the clock ticks down to the end of September 2023 when federal government funding expires.

President Biden and his administration are asking Congress for $3.3 billion dollars to fund new travel and housing programs for more economic migrants. Roy and 14 other House GOP members are pushing to block the funding. “Simply put, no member of Congress should agree to fund a federal agency at war with his state and people. We have a moral obligation to protect our states, our nation, and, importantly, the migrant children getting abused from the disaster transpiring at our southern border,” the lawmakers said in a letter.

“No. This should be a non-starter for the House GOP,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said in a statement. “It’s time to stand up for Americans and against the uniparty.”