Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas — who lost the Lone Star State GOP attorney general primary runoff in May and will depart the U.S. House of Representatives when his current term expires — said Republicans have “delivered significantly” but “need to finish the job.”
“Well, we’ve done so much that frankly, it kinda gets lost in a lot of the noise,” Roy told Fox News Digital during an interview on Wednesday, pointing to issues such as tax provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed by President Donald Trump last year.
The Texan pointed to the nation’s border as the “biggest example” of Republicans’ achievements, saying that “we’ve literally shut down the flow across the border” through enforcing the law.
He also pointed to the passage of the “Laken Riley Act,” a measure named after the 22-year-old woman murdered in 2024 by Jose Ibarra, a man who, according to a 2024 statement by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), had previously been “arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)” after illegally entering the U.S., but was “paroled and released for further processing.”
Roy said Republicans “need to unite with a singular vision about where we wanna take the country if we wanna be… rewarded in November… and then frankly looking ahead to 2028.”
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“Have we done everything we should do? No,” Roy said, claiming that “Congress has fallen short” regarding some of what they “should do.”
But he still believes the GOP could potentially retain their majorities in both congressional chambers during the midterms.
“I think right now Republicans are staring at barely holding onto the Senate and slightly losing the House, but I still think we can win the House,” he said.
The House is now only scheduled to work for several days next week before a lengthy break until after the Nov. 3 elections. Roy indicated that Republicans should get back to work after the midterms “to do our part to finish the job.”
“Obviously I’m not campaigning. So I’m thinking a lot about what we could do with another reconciliation package or what we might be able to do in the lame duck or in January, when I’m not in office,” he noted.
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In a Sunday post on X, Roy wrote, “Government does not fund anything. It takes money from people under force of law and distributes it to other people very inefficiently and usually tyrannically. Child care is unaffordable because government (& corporate cronyism) has made life unaffordable. Stay out.”
The New York Times reported last week that the Trump administration is moving to enable some married people with a stay-at-home parent situation to receive a childcare subsidy from a federal program that was meant to help parents who work.
The proposal “creates the option for a new category of care, parent-based child care, that will allow one married parent to receive C.C.D.F. [Child Care and Development Fund] assistance to care for their own child, while a spouse works at least 35 hours per week,” the outlet reported, citing a draft document.
Roy said during the interview on Wednesday, “I just don’t believe that it’s good for the human soul to have the government coming in with a grant and making you dependent on government. I just don’t philosophically think that that’s freedom. I think freedom, non-dependence, independence is what makes America great.”
A White House official said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital on Thursday that the Trump administration “has not announced any such proposal. Until and unless it does, any discussion about potential policies is baseless speculation.”
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As for whether he has any interest in running for office again, Roy said the matter is “up to God” and to Texans, adding that he has “a calling for service” and his current focus is on attempting to “solve the big problems for” Americans.
