The Avarice of the Senate: A Twitter Thread By @RepChipRoy on the 4,155-page $1.7 TRILLION spending bill

First, let’s look at the numbers:

It increases baseline spending by about $118 BILLION (8%)

And it spends a total of $772.5 on “non-defense” programs – aka $ for bureaucrats

This type of spending has FAR outpaced defense spending in recent years
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— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) December 21, 2022

The bill gives DHS an additional $3.2 BILLION

But it does NOTHING to force @SecMayorkas to secure the border – and explicitly prohibits CBP from doing it!

This money will be used to process/release MORE MIGRANTS, which means the crisis will get WORSE.#McConnellBorderCrisis

— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) December 21, 2022

The bill also gives the FBI a $600 MILLION (5%) funding INCREASE.

But it doesn’t do anything to address the FBI’s recent abuses, like colluding with big tech to suppress the NY Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop
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— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) December 21, 2022

But the bill DOES give an additional $213 MILLION (13% increase) to the ATF, which is trying to enact gun control via executive fiat.
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— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) December 21, 2022

That NIH funding also includes an additional $240 million for NIAID, which is run by none other than Anthony Fauci.

Perhaps this is a parting gift from @LeaderMcConnell thanking him for a job well done?
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— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) December 21, 2022

And while @CDCDirector was spreading vaccine misinformation, CDC was simultaneously colluding with Big Tech to censor Americans that, uh, spread… so-called “vaccine misinformation.”

We hope the irony is not lost on Senate Republicans!
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— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) December 21, 2022

But that’s just the start of the anti-American & anti-biology ideologies that this bill funds

It also increases funding for the Department of Education by $3.2 billion so it can continue to subsidize schools teaching woke ideologies to our kids
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— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) December 21, 2022

This bill gives a $3.6 billion funding increase to the State Department, which promotes woke ideologies abroad but left Americans trapped in Afghanistan…

Did Senate Republicans do anything to stop State from funding drag shows in Ecuador?
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— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) December 21, 2022

While the bill doesn’t do anything to stop State from funding woke ends… it does increase USAID’s “Protection of LGBTQI+ Persons” budget by 150%

And it funds the Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons. pic.twitter.com/GauGKBk5V0

— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) December 21, 2022

And it provides another HALF BILLION to Biden’s Department of Interior, which has leased fewer acres of federal land for oil and gas drilling than any administration since WWII.

Wonder why gas prices are still high?
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— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) December 21, 2022

So why’re Senate Rs so enthralled with this spending blowout?

Because it provides another $45 BILLION to Ukraine – on top of the $68 billion we’ve ALREADY PROVIDED
@LeaderMcConnell called it the “number one priority” for Senate Rs

CC: Americans
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— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) December 21, 2022

These are just a few of the reasons Rep. Roy and his colleagues sent a letter to Senate Rs promising to oppose every single legislative priority of any of the senators that vote for this bill.

He intends to make good on that promise.

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— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) December 21, 2022