Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) leapt to the defense of fellow fiscal conservative Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), whose refusal to come on board with the House GOP’s government funding bill triggered a political takedown by President Donald Trump.
Roy delivered the message to Massie on Tuesday in an interview on CNN hours after Trump threatened to unseat the Kentucky congressman for his confirmed “no” vote on the Republican spending package.
“First of all, Thomas is a great friend,” Roy said. “And you know, having been the recipient of some similar tweets, you know, the sun comes up tomorrow.”
Roy added: “We'll all be moving forward to try to deliver what we came to Washington to do for our constituents, and I think that's what Thomas does every day. That’s what I do every day.”
But, the MAGA Republican made clear that in this vote, he did not see eye-to-eye with Massie while the GOP enjoys two years of a rare trifecta of the federal government.
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“I just disagree with Thomas,” Chip told CNN’s Kasie Hunt. “I think that where we are at this moment, where we've got the president in the White House, we've got Russ Vought at OMB and Elon at DOGE doing what they're doing. We have the opportunity to have this administration do what we've been asking to be done for a long time, which is actually root out the waste, fraud and abuse, the ridiculous expenditures – identify them – and do the job that the American people sent us here to do in November.”
Roy concluded the exchange by stressing to viewers that he was “not a huge fan of CRs, but I’ve never ruled them out either.”
“This kind of differentiates me from both ends of the political spectrum in my conference. Where there's strategically beneficial, I’m for them,” he said. “I’ve never found them that strategically beneficial under the Biden regime, because I didn't agree with what Joe Biden was doing.”
He said, in this case, he “generally agree(s) with what President Trump is doing.”
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