Rep. Chip Roy (TX-21) issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1968, to continue funding the government through September 30th, 2025:
“I voted to effectively freeze spending levels for six more months and to give runway for the Trump Administration to continue its efforts to root out wasteful spending. House Republicans and President Trump are moving quickly to clean up the mess left by Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden, who refused to pass a budget or any appropriations bills – despite the House GOP passing five off the floor, and all 12 out of committee.
Notably, this “continuing resolution” excludes earmarks, modestly reduces year-over-year spending, and most importantly, prevents Democrats from purposefully shutting down DOGE, President Trump, and Russ Vought from uncovering the billions in waste, fraud, and abuse that has been going on for decades. The American people are now seeing that this whole town – THE SWAMP – has been wasting their money on absurd expenditures.
But this is just one more step, of many, in the spending fight.
Now, our focus must be on supporting the President’s efforts to impound and rescind unnecessary spending, passing appropriations bills for FY26 at a low topline including many of the DOGE-identified cuts, and then finalizing a conservative reconciliation package We must cut the massive inflation tax resulting from rampant spending by working to deliver on spending reductions ABOVE the $2 trillion FLOOR the House passed in our budget along with making tax cuts permanent.
It’s now our never.”
