Roy Defends Amendment To Ban Biden From Using Homeland Appropriations On Climate Executive Orders

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In remarks on the House floor last week, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) spoke about his amendment to prevent the president from using homeland security appropriations from to fund his climate executive orders.

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00:00Thank you, Chairman.

00:02This amendment will prohibit Homeland Security appropriations being used to carry out President

00:07Biden's climate executive orders.

00:09Now, people might wonder why this is important.

00:14President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas have been doing a massive amount of damage to this

00:18country with wide-open borders.

00:21Not only are they endangering the American people, they've literally lied, been caught

00:25lying about their own Border Patrol agents that they accused of whipping when they knew

00:30of whipping Haitian migrants when they knew full well it wasn't true.

00:34They've been targeting, undermining, attacking their own personnel, their own law enforcement

00:38community, going after CBP and Border Patrol simply because Border Patrol wants to do their

00:42job, endangering the American people.

00:44But that's not it.

00:45That's not all they're doing.

00:47The President's executive orders are undermining our national security and making us beholden

00:51to China in other ways, making us beholden to the rest of the world by undermining our

00:55ability to produce reliable energy, all in pursuit of radical progressive Democrats'

01:00vision of unicorn energy policy, which is unreliable and will not produce the energy

01:04needed to be able to carry out and be competitive in the world.

01:07EVs are piling up on lots as we speak.

01:11Dealers can't unload them.

01:14They literally can't.

01:15They can't sell them.

01:16Why?

01:17Because I don't know, if I want to get in my car in Austin, Texas and drive to Midland,

01:20I have to stop three times on the way and can't even find charging stations.

01:24People decide the fact that the cars are more expensive, more unreliable, more difficult

01:28to repair.

01:30That's the reality.

01:31Meanwhile, unreliable energy is dotting our grids across the entire country, including

01:34Texas.

01:35Why?

01:36Because instead of pursuing logical policies like nuclear, if you care about CO2 production,

01:42or clean burning natural gas, which has been driving down CO2 production around the world,

01:46we instead are choosing to litter the landscape with windmills and solar panels, which by

01:51the way are made out of what?

01:53Materials from China, which by the way come from what?

01:57Forced child labor, which is going out and forcing children to have to go out and be

02:00in work camps to go mine the cobalt necessary for batteries, mine the minerals that are

02:04necessary for all the solar panels.

02:06The solar panels and the windmills that all have to go be buried and filled in the ground,

02:10all of which by the way produces unreliable energy, puts us behind the rest of the world

02:14in energy production, when three billion people on this planet don't even have reliable energy.

02:20We're literally shooting ourselves in the economic foot.

02:23That's what we're doing, and we're doing it all because, I don't know, the feels.

02:28I don't know, put a sticker on your Tesla while you drive around and feel good about

02:32yourself and pat yourself on the back when you're not denting CO2 production.

02:36You could actually get rid of every internal combustion engine car in America, and you

02:41wouldn't reduce CO2 around the world by less than about one and a half percent at all.

02:46When the radical climate change executive orders by the president are undermining our

02:51national security, forcing the DOD, forcing the DHS, forcing all these executive branch

02:55agencies to weaken their ability to be productive and get their job done, can you imagine?

03:01Border patrol can't even talk right now on radios, they can't even communicate when they

03:05move along the border, if they're even allowed to go man the border, while instead they're

03:08changing diapers in some room in one of the ports of entry because we've been dumping

03:13people in through parole policies.

03:15Now we're going to be stuck down there trying to charge their batteries, hoping they can

03:18even go find the people crossing the river.

03:21You can't even make this crap up.

03:23If you set out to destroy a country, if you set out to literally destroy a country, I

03:29don't know how you could come up with policies better than the radical progressive Democrats

03:33who want to remake this country in their radical leftist image.

03:36I reserve.

03:37Gentlemen in reserves, for what purposes does the gentlelady from Illinois seek recognition?

03:42I claim time in opposition.

03:44You're just recognized for five minutes.

03:46Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

03:47This is yet another attempt by my colleagues across the aisle to defend any effort by the

03:51Biden administration to tackle the climate crisis and help our communities become more

03:55climate resilient.

03:56It is obviously misguided, anti-science, and will put all of us at greater risk of harm

04:03as a result of climate disasters.

04:05Only flawed and short-sighted thinking would presume that the climate crisis does not intersect

04:10with so many of the issues relevant to the department's mission, including migration,

04:15national security, and disaster relief.

04:17I will vote no, and I encourage my colleagues to do the same.

04:20I yield back.

04:21The gentleman from Texas is recognized.

04:25Yeah, I would just note, it's critically important that we adopt these amendments to restrict

04:29the executive branch from carrying out the executive orders that are undermining our

04:32efficiency and effectiveness, and I would urge adoption of this amendment.

04:36I yield back.

04:37The gentleman yields back.

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