'Mike Johnson blew it!' Chip Roy lashes out over his party's government funding bill
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) lashed out at House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) Thursday over a bill to avert a government shutdown.
Roy told conservative podcast host Steve Bannon that Johnson had made too many concessions to Democrats in the bill.
"This is an embarrassment," he explained. "Today, everybody listening to this show, light up your congressmen and congresswomen. Light them up, light up your senators. Tell them the truth, that they are risking the House majority if they vote for this bill."
"A vote for this bill is a vote against America," he continued.
"You can't get everything you want. None of us would say you can. But dadgum it, we should get at least something significant in the fight."
"We should use our leverage, and Mike Johnson blew it when he walked away from a continuing resolution that we could have extended through this year to trigger the caps that we had put in place last year," he went on.
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Roy concluded by imploring the audience to get involved.
"They should melt the phone down, and melt down the phone lines and the emails and the texts and all of that," he said. "And I mean that. I mean that today. Call today and make sure every member of Congress feels the pain that they should not vote for this bill."