Continuing Appropriations and Other Matters Act, 2025

Floor Speech

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Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the legislation before us here today, and I thank the gentleman for his work on this legislation.

Mr. Speaker, the fact is, what we just heard from the minority leader in trying to describe this as a so-called extreme MAGA partisan agenda, let's be very clear what we are talking about for the average American. To the average American listening, what the minority leader, what the radical, progressive Democratic Party, is saying is extreme is a spending freeze into the next year combined with legislation that would guarantee that only American citizens vote in American elections.

Let's just be very clear. I think the American people need to know this: What our radical, progressive Democratic colleagues deem extreme is a spending freeze combined with only American citizens voting in American elections. That is a really important thing for the American people to know.

We are here, yes, because Congress is not getting the job done, but let's be very clear that the United States Senate, which is controlled by majority Democrats, has passed precisely zero appropriations bills through the body in the Senate.

The House of Representatives and the Republican majority have passed five bills. It would be my preference that we passed 12, but we sit here today trying to make a determination on how to proceed.

I don't think anyone in this body on either side of the aisle, nor my colleagues or friends around this country, to look at me and question whether I would prefer that we cut spending. I would like to cut spending. I don't think we should be funding the agenda that is being driven by Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden, and my radical, progressive Democratic colleagues.

I don't believe we should continue to fund a Secret Service that can't protect the former President without reforms.

I don't think we should continue to fund at current levels a Department of Homeland Security that leaves our borders wide open so that Laken Riley is killed, so that Rachel Morin is killed, so that Kayla Hamilton is killed, and so that Jocelyn Nungaray is killed and her poor 27-year-old mother is left having to be a witness in a hearing in the House Judiciary Committee talking about the gagging, the raping, the binding, and the murder of her 12-year-old daughter in Houston, Texas.

The ultimate result of all of that is that we now have to wonder whether noncitizens are voting in our elections. The fact is we know they are. We have cleaned up rolls in Texas, 6,500, including the 2,000 we know voted in elections. In Virginia 6,300 were cleaned off with thousands who were included in the election. We have cleaned up 3,251 in Alabama, 300 in Oregon, and we can keep going down the list.

All we are saying is that American citizens should vote. That is it.

So my Democratic colleagues seemingly want noncitizens to vote, and they can't accept a spending freeze as being reasonable.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this bill.

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Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I would like to say a word to my friends on this side of the aisle. One year ago, 21 of my conservative colleagues opposed a continuing resolution that would have cut nondefense, nonveteran, and non-Homeland Security spending by 30 percent for 30 days and included H.R. 2. A lot of those same people are walking away from a piece of legislation that we are putting forward right now.

I am asking them to stand up with the Republican Party, stand up with President Trump, and stand up with the American people to demand that we freeze spending, hold it in check, take the pen away from the radical, progressive Democrats of Joe Biden in a lameduck, and let's make sure that only American citizens can vote in American elections.

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