{"id":1471785,"date":"2022-05-11T13:59:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T17:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1471785"},"modified":"2022-05-11T14:00:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T18:00:04","slug":"why-dont-we-talk-about-the-american-people-republican-congressman-erupts-on-house-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-dont-we-talk-about-the-american-people-republican-congressman-erupts-on-house-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Why Don\u2019t We Talk About the American People\u2019: Republican Congressman Erupts on House Floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-dont-we-talk-about-the-american-people-republican-congressman-erupts-on-house-floor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1471785&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy took to the House floor Tuesday afternoon to oppose a more than $40 billion spending bill to provide additional aid for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Roy criticized Democrats for rushing a vote on the huge spending bill mere hours after the text was released. Roy took to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chiproytx\/status\/1524177943467077635\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> to criticize the \u201cgall of Members of Congress lecturing us when jamming through a $40[billion] Ukraine funding bill.\u201d He noted he and his staff could not review the 30-page bill thoroughly before the 3 p.m. vote, and moved to adjourn until Members had a chance to read the bill carefully. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/07\/ukraine-aid-government-funding-resolution-nancy-pelosi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: House To Include Ukraine Aid In Government Funding Bill, Pelosi Says)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou [Democrats] want to sit here and lecture this body about what we\u2019re going to do or not do about standing alongside Ukraine? Why don\u2019t we talk about the American people who are hurting, the wide open borders, the inflation that\u2019s killing people, the jobs that people can\u2019t get because the cost of goods and services in this country?\u201d Roy said on the House floor, according to his Twitter post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Congress is jamming through ANOTHER massive spending bill that its members haven\u2019t had time to read.<\/p>\n<p>More from Rep Roy: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WNFEXzAU02\">pic.twitter.com\/WNFEXzAU02<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepChipRoy\/status\/1524177340372299776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The bill passed the House with a vote of 368-to-57 vote Tuesday and will move to the Senate where it is expected to pass, the Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/05\/10\/house-poised-approve-additional-40-billion-aid-ukraine\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The spending package\u00a0includes $6 billion for security assistance, $8.7 billion to replenish stocks of U.S. equipment, $3.9 billion for European Command operations, $11 billion in Presidential Drawdown Authority, $4 billion in Foreign Military Financing, $5 billion in humanitarian assistance, and $9 billion for economic support, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us-house-vote-40-billion-ukraine-aid-package-tuesday-pelosi-2022-05-10\/\">according<\/a> to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Congress already approved $13.6 billion in aid to Ukraine. With the passage of the latest spending bill, the total is now more than $50 billion in aid, according to The Washington Post. Roy was among the 57 Republicans who voted against the aid package, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/full-list-57-house-republicans-voted-against-ukraine-aid-1705463\">according<\/a> to Newsweek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Texas Rep. 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