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As high-level aides in the Texas Attorney General’s office continue to expose AG Ken Paxton’s criminal use of the office for personal gain, Chip Roy’s history with Paxton is under renewed scrutiny. Roy’s departure from the Attorney General’s office in 2016 was clouded by accusations that he received “hush money” from Paxton, in the form …
Continue reading “October 8, 2020: Chip Roy’s Involvement in Paxton Scandals Resurfaces”
Within hours of attending a fundraising event on August 21, Roy tweeted that “an intermittent sciatic nerve issue” made it impossible for him to sit down “for any period of time” and that “flying to DC was not an option” for the vote on US Postal Service funding and mail delays held in the House …
Continue reading “August 22, 2020: Chip Roy pleads back pain, ducks House vote on USPS”
As the COVID-19 death toll in Texas climbed toward 9,000, Rep. Chip Roy declared that COVID-19 health precautions were an “absolute fraud being perpetrated on the American people of fear.” Roy, in an interview with right-wing YouTuber Steve Deace, went on to claim that Democrats were hiding secret knowledge about how to end the COVID-19 …
Continue reading “July 30, 2020: Chip Roy claims COVID-19 is a hoax”
As COVID-19 infection rates soared in central Texas, with record-breaking numbers of new cases and hospitals exceeding capacity, Rep. Chip Roy deserted his district, taking a road trip to visit a series of East Coast tourist destinations. In a series of tweets over the first week of July, Roy recorded himself traveling, sightseeing, and visiting …
Continue reading “July 7, 2020: As Texas COVID rate skyrockets, Chip Roy goes AWOL from TX-21”
Drilling by pipeline company Kinder Morgan recently polluted the water supplies of at least three homes in Hays County. The “Permian Highway Pipeline” will run across environmentally sensitive Hill Country land, including at least three counties in Texas’s 21st Congressional District. Kinder Morgan is taking land for the pipeline by eminent domain, and has been …
In a March 20th editorial in the National Review, Roy called for “a quick date certain” to “save our economy” by ending the social distancing protocols for COVID-19. Picking a “Coronavirus D-Day” is, according to Roy, “The most important thing we need to do — right now.” Even though President Trump himself has backed off from …
Continue reading “April 4, 2020: Roy Pushes Disastrous Plan to End COVID-19 Health Precautions”
As the House of Representatives prepared to vote on a $2 trillion emergency stimulus bill for relief from the economic impact of the deadly COVID-19 outbreak, Chip Roy was quick to defend his friend Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky), who took a page from Chip’s playbook and demanded a roll call vote. Massie’s action required all …
Continue reading “March 27, 2020: Roy Praises Delay of COVID-19 Stimulus Bill, Skips Vote”
In September 2019, Rep. Roy published an editorial in The Hill, arguing that Congress needed to assert its Constitutional authority to end our decades-long involvement in Middle Eastern conflicts. Congress, Roy wrote, has “abdicated its solemn responsibility under Article 1. Congress needs to come to a consensus regarding which threats and entities necessitate military action, …
Continue reading “January 3, 2020: Chip Roy Flip-flops on Congressional Oversight of U.S. Warfare”
Despite unanimous agreement among America’s national security experts that stories of Ukrainian election-meddling are “a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services,” Roy has fully embraced the Russian conspiracy theories. “I do think there is ample evidence of Ukraine having engagement and involvement with things talking about a 2016 …
Roy became angry in a July House Oversight hearing on White House work communications sent via personal email and cellphones, in violation of federal laws governing White House recordkeeping. When Rep. Gerald Connolly pushed back on his criticism of the committee’s subpoenas of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, Roy began complaining loudly about drug cartels on the …
Continue reading “July 25, 2019: Chip Roy storms out of House Oversight hearing”