Roy is 100% correct and Trump 100% wrong as far as spending is concerned. Trump spends like a drunken liberal.

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thats fair. my personal history with this individual prevents me from every voting for them

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Roy is 100% correct and Trump 100% wrong as far as spending is concerned. Trump spends like a drunken liberal.

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LOL, Trump cut executive spending, which he can control. Congress spends the money.

Trump did add to the border protection, but he had to if we want illegals deported. There are millions that have been deported. You think that spending was not worth it?

Trump PUSHED the BIG "beautiful" bill. He didn't fight it. Just like he did all of his other huge spending bills. Even when he owned both houses of congress. That's the entire reason for his falling out with Musk. Trump wiped away all of Musk's progress with a swipe of the pen.

LOL indeed.

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Trump PUSHED the BIG "beautiful" bill. He didn't fight it. Just like he did all of his other huge spending bills. Even when he owned both houses of congress. That's the entire reason for his falling out with Musk. Trump wiped away all of Musk's progress with a swipe of the pen.

LOL indeed.

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Well, maybe LMAO is more appropriate.

Of course Trump PUSHED the BBB. Trump needed the BBB to pass his tax cuts and fund his border war. Of course he pushed it. Are you against those?

He didn't push for congress to gut his doge efforts. The republicans in congress didn't support the Doge cuts. Only $9Billion was passed. Not Trump. Trump got USAID killed. He pushed for more cuts. But the republicans in congress wouldn't go along. Dip****s like ROY and his TDS wouldn't support him.

Tax Cuts and Border Security were too important for this country. We are seeing the results of that now. GDP growing and inflation cratering. Trump implemented Doge. He supported it. Death threats to Musk and Congress killed it.

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Trump PUSHED the BIG "beautiful" bill. He didn't fight it. Just like he did all of his other huge spending bills. Even when he owned both houses of congress. That's the entire reason for his falling out with Musk. Trump wiped away all of Musk's progress with a swipe of the pen.

LOL indeed.

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Well, maybe LMAO is more appropriate.

Of course Trump PUSHED the BBB. Trump needed the BBB to pass his tax cuts and fund his border war. Of course he pushed it. Are you against those?

He didn't push for congress to gut his doge efforts. The republicans in congress didn't support the Doge cuts. Only $9Billion was passed. Not Trump. Trump got USAID killed. He pushed for more cuts. But the republicans in congress wouldn't go along. Dip****s like ROY and his TDS wouldn't support him.

Tax Cuts and Border Security were too important for this country. We are seeing the results of that now. GDP growing and inflation cratering. Trump implemented Doge. He supported it. Death threats to Musk and Congress killed it.

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The GOP owns both houses of congress. It's HIS FREAKING CONGRESS. By comparison, Obama passed Obamacare without a single GOP vote when he owned congress.

The BBB is a joke. The "cuts" (that were less than the spending increases) are made in the future and over 10 freaking years, while the spending increases happened immediately. And if it wasn't for Musk trashing the bill, Trump would have happily spent MORE.

And tax cuts don't mean crap if spending is increased. That money still comes out of our ass. Whether it is via inflation or other ways.

(Science denier indeed)

Uh, at least half the republicans in congress hate him. They won't even confirm his nominees, over a year into his term. It isn't HIS Congress. Republicans are feckless. They refuse to govern.

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Uh, at least half the republicans in congress hate him. They won't even confirm his nominees, over a year into his term. It isn't HIS Congress. Republicans are feckless. They refuse to govern.

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That's his freaking fault. He's a dumbass who doesn't know how to gain support from his own damn side.

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It's HIS FREAKING CONGRESS.

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So, Trump owns Roy? Massey? They are HIS right?

That's news to me.

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Uh, at least half the republicans in congress hate him. They won't even confirm his nominees, over a year into his term. It isn't HIS Congress. Republicans are feckless. They refuse to govern.

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That's his freaking fault. He's a dumbass who doesn't know how to gain support from his own damn side.

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But, yet they all put him in their political ads.

Hmmmmmmm

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It's HIS FREAKING CONGRESS.

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So, Trump owns Roy? Massey? They are HIS right?

That's news to me.

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All Trump had to do is actually be fiscally responsible for a change and they would have been his champions. Instead, he tries to outspend Biden. It should be no wonder why the economically literate congressmen oppose him.

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Uh, at least half the republicans in congress hate him. They won't even confirm his nominees, over a year into his term. It isn't HIS Congress. Republicans are feckless. They refuse to govern.

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That's his freaking fault. He's a dumbass who doesn't know how to gain support from his own damn side.

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But, yet they all put him in their political ads.

Hmmmmmmm

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The votes are what matters. And he can't get them when it matters.

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Ellis Wyatt said:

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Uh, at least half the republicans in congress hate him. They won't even confirm his nominees, over a year into his term. It isn't HIS Congress. Republicans are feckless. They refuse to govern.

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That's his freaking fault. He's a dumbass who doesn't know how to gain support from his own damn side.

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But, yet they all put him in their political ads.

Hmmmmmmm

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The votes are what matters. And he can't get them when it matters.

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BBB passed. Tax Cuts passed. Border security passed. Millions are being deported,

Can't get the votes?

This Republican Congress sucks. Period. I don't care whether they like him or not, do your damn job and get the legislation to a vote. That will expose who's a fraud and who's not.

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Uh, at least half the republicans in congress hate him. They won't even confirm his nominees, over a year into his term. It isn't HIS Congress. Republicans are feckless. They refuse to govern.

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That's his freaking fault. He's a dumbass who doesn't know how to gain support from his own damn side.

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But, yet they all put him in their political ads.

Hmmmmmmm

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The votes are what matters. And he can't get them when it matters.

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BBB passed. Tax Cuts passed. Border security passed. Millions are being deported,

Can't get the votes?

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Yeah, and it's a POS. That's the point. He is accelerating us towards economic collapse.

Keep up.

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Ellis Wyatt said:

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Uh, at least half the republicans in congress hate him. They won't even confirm his nominees, over a year into his term. It isn't HIS Congress. Republicans are feckless. They refuse to govern.

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That's his freaking fault. He's a dumbass who doesn't know how to gain support from his own damn side.

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But, yet they all put him in their political ads.

Hmmmmmmm

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The votes are what matters. And he can't get them when it matters.

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BBB passed. Tax Cuts passed. Border security passed. Millions are being deported,

Can't get the votes?

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Yeah, and it's a POS. That's the point. He is accelerating us towards economic collapse.

Keep up.

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He can't get the votes
He gets the votes, but deporting illegals and tax cuts are POS

LOL, keep up!!

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Ellis Wyatt said:

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Uh, at least half the republicans in congress hate him. They won't even confirm his nominees, over a year into his term. It isn't HIS Congress. Republicans are feckless. They refuse to govern.

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That's his freaking fault. He's a dumbass who doesn't know how to gain support from his own damn side.

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But, yet they all put him in their political ads.

Hmmmmmmm

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The votes are what matters. And he can't get them when it matters.

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BBB passed. Tax Cuts passed. Border security passed. Millions are being deported,

Can't get the votes?

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Yeah, and it's a POS. That's the point. He is accelerating us towards economic collapse.

Keep up.

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He can't get the votes
He gets the votes, but deporting illegals and tax cuts are POS

LOL, keep up!!

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I was retorting two different arguments.


He either:

1) wants to spend like a flaming liberal (my point of view)
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2) deep down wishes he could cut spending, but can't get congress to go along (the point of view of others here)

#1 means he is basically a liberal and incompetent and #2 means he's just incompetent.

Increasing the CRAP out of spending is the POS part. Tax cuts don't mean a damned thing if we pay even more in the future or now in inflation.

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Yeah, and it's a POS. That's the point. He is accelerating us towards economic collapse.

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The BBB increased federal spending by $500 Billion while introducing tax rollbacks and tax code handouts some of which makes sense but others of which are just the type of straight up dumb@ss voter buys you only see in third world countries. Most everyone views our deficits growing by $3 Trillion at a minimum even after allowing for a theoretical surge in revenue.

How anyone tries to spin that as Trump cutting spending is beyond me.

Attorney General: @chiproytx and @mayes_middleton leading in UT poll pic.twitter.com/9bwGI7KvSb

— Brandon Waltens (@bwaltens) February 25, 2026

Would not have guessed Reitz was polling so poorly.

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Attorney General: @chiproytx and @mayes_middleton leading in UT poll pic.twitter.com/9bwGI7KvSb

— Brandon Waltens (@bwaltens) February 25, 2026

Would not have guessed Reitz was polling so poorly.

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He got my vote but he's going to be hamstrung by name recognition and lack of funds.

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Would rather have him run against Cornyn

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Chip's first political job was on the Cornyn campaign. They are close...despite never talking about each other.

If you want to undo all the good that Paxton has done in Texas you will vote for Chip. He ain't one of us.

I think you may be leaving out a few details about Chip :

Before becoming a U.S. Representative in 2019,
Chip Roy
held several high-level legal and advisory positions in both the Texas state government and the federal government:

• First Assistant Attorney General of Texas: Served as the top deputy under Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton from 2015 to 2016.
• Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator
  Ted Cruz
  : Led Senator Cruz's office from 2013 to 2014 and later served as a senior advisor.
• Senior Advisor to Texas Governor
  Rick Perry
  : Acted as a senior counsel and advisor to Governor Perry from 2011 to 2012, and was the ghostwriter for Perry's 2010 book, Fed Up!.
• Director of State-Federal Relations for Texas: Appointed by Governor Perry to lead the office managing Texas's interactions with the federal government in 2011.
• Special Assistant U.S. Attorney: Served as a federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Texas between 2009 and 2011, focusing on cases involving violent crime and drug trafficking.
• Staff Director/Chief Counsel for Senator John Cornyn: Worked in various roles for Senator Cornyn between 2003 and 2009, including serving as the staff director of the Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Citizenship.