Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) revealed Republicans’ strategy is to do everything they can “to slow” down Democrats’ legislative agenda until the 2022 midterm election.
A video dated June 29 from a Patriot Voices event shows Roy touching on infrastructure negotiations, saying, “Pelosi is just tacking hard to the left, to AOC and company.”
He added, “You saw it unfold with this whole Pelosi, Schumer, Biden thing on infrastructure. We have no idea where they are.”
Roy explained for the next 18 months, “Our job is to do everything we can to slow all of that down to get to December of 2022, and then get in here and lead.”
The Republican lawmaker went on to explain the real issue is the confusion surrounding infrastructure negotiations.
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“The people who were working to cut the deal, by the way, were not your conservative warriors in the Senate and so they’re cutting a deal, but then Biden, who came out and said ‘We have a deal,’ allowed Pelosi to basically kind of step in and go, ‘Whoop, no you don’t. You’re only gonna get that deal if you have reconciliation with all this liberal garbage,” Roy said.
He continued, “And then Biden said, ‘Ok, yeah.’ And they kind of backed away from the deal. Then he kind of came back away from the veto threat, so nobody knows what anybody’s gonna do right now. That’s the thing. This is the problem. I actually say, thank the Lord. Eighteen more months of chaos and the inability to get stuff done. That’s what we want.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) made similar comments in May when he said “100% of our focus is on stopping” the Biden administration.
When asked about his comments during a White House press briefing, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki responded, “I guess the contrast for people to consider is 100% of our focus is on delivering relief to the American people, on getting the pandemic under control and putting people back to work and we welcome support and engagement and work with Republicans on that.”
She added, “The president has extended an open arm to that. The door to the Oval Office is open.”
