Further Continuing Appropriations and Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2025
Floor Speech
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Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, when I ran for Congress in 2018, the debt was $21 trillion.
I was just texting with my son back home in Austin, who I haven't seen in quite a long time because I am here trying to fight for him.
When I got through cancer about 12 years ago, I made a promise to my kids that I would do everything I can to save this country, and what we are doing right now is continuing to double down on the things that are destroying the Republic.
We are going to increase the debt ceiling, not just $4 trillion. That is false. We have spent $4.7 trillion in additional debt in the last 19 months. We are going to increase the debt by $5 trillion. That is what is going to happen right here by Republicans. We are increasing the debt by $5 trillion.
What are you doing in the same bill? Mr. Speaker, $110 billion is unpaid for because you never have an ounce of self-respect to go out and campaign, saying you are going to balance the budget, and then you come in here and pass $110 billion unpaid for, on top of the $200 billion you did for WEP. My colleagues won't agree with that, but the fact of the matter is, they have added $330 billion to the debt since you were given the majority again on November 5.
It is embarrassing. It is shameful. Yes, I think this bill is better than it was yesterday in certain respects, but to take this bill yesterday and congratulate themselves because it is shorter in pages but increases the debt by $5 trillion is asinine, and that is precisely what Republicans are doing.
I am absolutely sickened by a party that campaigns on fiscal responsibility and has the temerity to go forward to the American people and say they think this is fiscally responsible. It is absolutely ridiculous.
It also turns off paygo. It turns off the $1.7 trillion in automatic cuts under paygo because this side of the aisle is profoundly unserious about actually reducing deficits just as my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are profoundly unserious about reducing deficits.
The entire body has been racking up debt for my entire life. We are now at $36 trillion with a trillion dollars of interest. We rack up a trillion dollars every 100 days.
What are we going to do about it? We are going to run around and talk about cutting taxes, but not doing what is necessary to cut the spending along with the cut taxes.
On the other side of the aisle, my colleagues will say: Oh, no, we have got to increase taxes but won't do anything to cut spending. So here we sit in the same mess. I have to be honest, and I will remind people, this is Article I.
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