ICYMI: Roy on Mornings with Maria: We need to deliver for the American people

Washington, D.C. - In case you missed it, Congressman Chip Roy (TX-21) joined Maria Bartiromo on "Mornings with Maria" on Fox Business to break down a GAO report exposing widespread Obamacare tax credit fraud and warn of growing government overreach as Republicans push for accountability.

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Key Quotes:

Rep Roy:"The GAO had a study that uncovered a lot of this fraud, demonstrating what a lot of us know, which is, if you're going to have all the subsidies flying out, you're going to have rampant fraud. And look importantly, Democrats have been saying we need to give more money to insurance companies. President Trump, as usual, is completely correct. He says, don't do that. Let's side with the American people and provide options for them. Let's give support to American families and hardworking Americans who can't afford health care right now. The American people are rightly, really angry that they can't afford health care.

The average family of four having to spend $25,000 between themselves and their employer to get subpar care, to have no access to the doctors of their choice, have fewer options and spending more money."

Rep Roy: "The American people are really happy to see the president deliver on what he said he would do, strong borders, where we stopped the flow of all the illegal immigrants into our country, stopping fentanyl pouring into Texas, standing up around the world, a military that's now focused on a war making machine, the Department of War. We have, you know, enlistments are up. The Academy nominations are up. People are excited again to serve in the United States military, because of this president.

I think you're seeing now, and people are saying, well, they only won by nine points. This was a special election. The American people know that we're delivering for him, but yes, we now need to stand behind the president, and we do need to address affordability. Congress did a great job working with the President to get taxes down in the big, beautiful bill, to root out a lot of the waste and fraud and Medicaid and get spending cut, the biggest reforms and mandatory spending in a generation.

We need to deliver for the American people. And if we do that, we'll be fine next November, but we've got to back up the president. Congress needs to actually get on offense on health care. Get on offense on housing affordability. Why do we have foreign interest owning housing stock? Why don't we stop that? Why do we have big corporations owning houses in America? Let's stop that. Let's stop enriching insurance companies, and let's give power to American families to afford health care."

Rep Roy: "I just came to Washington about six years ago, and I said, how many crimes are there? Nobody could tell me. The Department of Justice did a report, and then they said they gave up. They couldn't count them. The -- you know, Congressional Research Service couldn't tell me, so I introduced legislation to say, can you count the crimes? Tell me what the penalties are. Tell me what the -- you know mens rea is, and what you need to do to commit the crime. And then how much are these being prosecuted?

I think it's important, because this Department of Justice, our government has been weaponized against the people. Take the FACE Act, for example, criminalizing people, exercising their faith and going and praying at abortion clinics, and they end up in jail for years and years and years, or the January 6th folks that were prosecuted. We don't even know all the crimes that can be, you know, levied against you, and you end up in jail.

How about all the regulations? There's something like 300,000 regulations that can result in criminal punishment on the average American. We should know all of this, and then we should start, you know, reducing a lot of these crimes, eliminating redundancy, and making sure that we're consistent and how we apply the law, so the government is not weaponized against people like it was weaponized against President Trump."

Rep Roy: "Jim Jordan is right to subpoena Jack Smith. The amount of abuse is egregious. It's the biggest scandal, certainly in modern times, if not in American history. If you look at the depth and the breadth of the abuse of power by the Biden administration, the Department of Justice. It was directed at President Trump specifically, directed at his administration.

We need to hold them accountable. We need to expose it to the American people, because it's real. You cannot have an empowered federal government that is abusing power, targeting people for their political beliefs and values. President Trump is the face of that, and he's bringing it to light. God bless him for it."