Relating to Consideration of the Senate Amendment to H.R. Rescissions Act of 2025

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Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairwoman for yielding.

So here we are. Democrats couldn't seem to find a single thing to say about Epstein when President Biden was in office, but now they want to make this the centerpiece of their entire conversation.

The fact of the matter is right now they know it is true, and right now what they don't want to do is have the American people focusing on the Republicans in Congress who are doing the thing they sent us here to do, which is end wasteful spending, to stop the ridiculous spending of a bureaucratic government that has been weaponized against the people. These are dollars that are being used and wasted and sent around the world for $32,000 for transgender comic books in Peru. That is how they want to use taxpayer money.

We are over here trying to make sure we are saving that money instead of having $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt or $2 million for sex changes and LGBT activism in Guatemala.

Why should the people of Texas be paying for that instead of paying to clean up the flood in Texas?

The fact of the matter is the people of Texas want their money to be used for the things they care about.

We have listened to the minority leader come to the floor and lecture us about the virtues of public radio and public broadcasting.

Yet, nevertheless, the truth is it took NPR through Texas public radio 19 hours to post anything about the flooding on its social media pages after the floods hit in Texas.

What was NPR and Texas public radio doing that morning?

They weren't breaking to talk about what was happening in Texas. They were running ads saying people should call Congress to fund them, but the private stations in Texas were breaking to release reports and tell people what to do because that is what private stations can do. They can respond to the people because they are locally owned, they are locally run, and they are not run by bureaucrats from this town.

The fact is, we are going to save money for the American people and end the absurdity of this leftist propaganda being put under public radio.

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