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The Blast: Speaker’s race holiday cheer [1]
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Date: 2024-12
Third time’s the charm. With mere hours left till the government shutdown, the House finally passed a spending bill without support from U.S. Rep. Chip Roy and 33 other Republicans who still opposed the measure. Now, it’s on to the Senate.
Roy, of Austin, has yet again emerged as one of the most vocal critics of continuing resolutions that keep the budget at a status quo rather than using Republicans’ power to limit spending and reduce the federal deficit.
“I am absolutely sickened by a party that campaigns on fiscal responsibility and has the temerity to go forward to the American people and say you think this is fiscally responsible,” Roy roared on the House floor yesterday after killing Republican leadership’s second attempt at a funding bill.
On Truth Social, President-elect Donald Trump called Roy an “unpopular ‘congressman’” and said “Republican obstructionists have to be done away with.”
But Roy was only one of 38 Republicans who helped torpedo the funding bill last night. The list includes six other Texas Republicans: Michael Cloud of Victoria
of Victoria Wesley Hunt of Houston
of Houston Morgan Luttrell of Willis
of Willis Nathaniel Moran of Tyler
of Tyler Keith Self of McKinney
of McKinney Beth Van Duyne of Irving Today, the opposition picked up Tony Gonzales of San Antonio and Lance Gooden of Terrell. They lost Luttrell and Moran, who said he supported the final version because it removed provisions to raise the debt ceiling.
And while Roy wages his crusade against the federal deficit, he’s also about to get some pressure on one of the major policy questions for 2025: renewing the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
A group called the PROTECT Coalition is launching a digital ad campaign in his and four other districts to build support for part of the Trump-era tax cuts that added a 20% deduction for pass-through entities, a cohort of businesses that aren’t corporations. Advocates say that helps put smaller businesses on a level playing field with corporations, whose tax rate was reduced from 35% to 21% under the tax cuts.
In addition to being a budget hawk, Roy has been a part of the populist movement concerned that corporations are dictating policy to protect their bottom line. The ad campaign is also targeting the district of U.S. Rep. Jodey Arrington, R-Lubbock, who serves on the House Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Tax Policy.
The PROTECT Coalition was created this year by tax policy experts at lawyer-lobbyist firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. A spokesperson told The Blast they chose the list of districts because of the members’ positions on deficit spending and the committees on which they serve.
“We’re urging people in the district to tell their representatives to help President Trump preserve these cuts,” the spokesperson said.
The ad spend is starting with $15,000 across the five districts but is expected to grow after the holidays.
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