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The Senate Armed Services Committee moved

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forward a defense authorization act that

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would require women to register for

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severe backlash from Republicans in the

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House. In this episode,

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to discuss select service for women, keeping

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it is Congressman Chip Roy from Texas.

1:14

Congressman, thank you so much for coming

1:16

on. So first, how did this female

1:18

selective service proposal come about? Well,

1:21

what you have, first of all, just

1:23

to lay the context. The House Republicans,

1:25

we passed the National Defense Authorization Act.

1:28

It's a pretty solid conservative bill. It cuts

1:30

out a lot of the DEI and critical

1:32

race theory and all of the offices over

1:34

the Pentagon gets rid of the transgender surgery

1:37

stuff and those kinds of things. And

1:39

it's a good bill and it certainly does

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not go down the road of forcing women,

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our daughters, if you will, to

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register for selective service for the draft. Unfortunately,

1:48

a small group over in the Senate,

1:50

including Republicans, felt that important

1:52

to include it in the Senate committee bill,

1:54

the Senate Armed Services Committee, voted

1:56

for the amendment and then voted out the

1:58

NDA out of committee. onto the floor with

2:01

Republican support for a

2:03

provision that would force women to register for

2:05

selective service. I think this is

2:08

bullish. I fought this three years ago and they

2:10

first were trying to bring this up, fought

2:12

it vigorously. We were able to kill it. Both

2:14

the House and Senate had a version that included

2:16

it. We killed it over here in

2:18

the House, killed it last time. This time we kept it

2:20

out of the House. Now we gotta go fight it out

2:22

of the Senate. And as for the

2:24

people who support this bill, what are their arguments

2:27

for it? Yeah, they don't have

2:29

really good arguments other than just, okay, well, equality, everybody

2:32

should be able to serve or treat it the same. I'm like, well,

2:34

first of all, you can go sign up and you can volunteer. Second

2:37

of all, I'm still not a fan of

2:39

women in combat, regardless of whether it's volunteer

2:41

or not. It's certainly not compulsory. And

2:43

importantly though, what I hear over here is,

2:45

Chip, don't ever worry like that. They'll never

2:47

be drafted into combat. We'll never do

2:50

it. Then they'll say, well, we'll only need a draft if

2:52

we're in a land war with China. I'm like, well, we're

2:54

in a land war with China. And we're losing our, I

2:56

think it's like 17 million men

2:58

between the age of 18 and 60 and

3:00

fighting age. We're losing those guys and we

3:02

need women. Then you're not gonna need them

3:04

unless you feel like you're gonna need to go put them

3:07

down on the front lines. All of

3:09

this, by the way, ignores all the performance, right?

3:11

We've got study after study after study that shows

3:13

that women cannot perform at the same level in

3:15

combat. These are military DOD

3:18

commissioned studies. There was one from

3:20

2015 where the Marine Corps, $36

3:22

million, by the way, to

3:25

say that mixed units were outperformed by

3:27

all male units, that's mixed, by the

3:29

way, 70% of the time

3:31

in combat tasks. And by the

3:33

way, after multiple iterations of the Army

3:36

Combat Fitness Test, the Army Navy dropped

3:38

its gender neutral standards after nearly 50%

3:40

of active duty enlisted female soldiers could

3:42

not pass previous versions of the test.

3:44

By the way, 92% of men could.

3:48

How has the role of women

3:50

in the military evolved since 2016

3:52

and what impact does that have on the current

3:55

debate over the draft? Well,

3:57

first of all, they can't even decide what the hell

3:59

a woman is, okay? Including. including in the Pentagon, including

4:01

in defense, talking about all the Title IX nonsense and

4:03

what's going on. And you can't even actually acknowledge the

4:05

difference between man and woman. But

4:07

what you've got going on in the

4:10

Pentagon is an affirmative effort by the

4:12

Pentagon to force the DEI stuff onto

4:14

not just people who've been list, but

4:16

onto Americans. A draft is a whole

4:18

other issue. They can't acknowledge that there

4:20

is in fact just two sexes. Why

4:22

would I entrust them with my daughter?

4:25

In question on this, the

4:27

Army Secretary Christine Warmoo admitted

4:30

to Senator Cotton in a hearing, quote,

4:32

we wanted to make sure we didn't

4:34

unfairly have standards for a particular subgroup

4:37

that people couldn't perform. We

4:40

didn't want to disadvantage any subgroup.

4:42

Are you sh**ing me? This is

4:44

crazy. Now,

4:46

a Senate committee has already passed

4:48

this 2025 National Defense Authorization Act.

4:51

What are the next steps for that? Will you be

4:53

able to stop it? Well, I

4:55

hope so. I mean, first of all, every

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Republican senator, I mean, I have Democrats senators,

5:00

too, should be shamed if they vote for

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the National Defense Authorization Act. I include any

5:04

of my friends in that category, by the

5:06

way. No Republican should vote for

5:08

the National Defense Authorization Act in the

5:10

Senate, including a provision that would draft

5:12

your daughters. I mean, and any of the fathers over

5:14

there, if they think this is a good idea, I

5:17

want them to go on to TV and explain it

5:19

if they vote for it. Number one, number two, if

5:22

the Senate Republicans are too cowardly

5:24

to stop this and they send

5:26

it to a conference, then we in the

5:28

House must do our duty to stop it. And

5:31

I'm going to put every single ounce of my

5:33

energy into ensuring that we stop it if it

5:35

gets to the conference, but it shouldn't get there.

5:37

We ought to speak with one loud, clear voice

5:39

on this. Now, shifting gears

5:42

a bit here to the

5:44

issue of election integrity, you

5:46

co-authored along with Senator Mike

5:48

Lee the SAVE Act. That's

5:50

the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility

5:52

Act. The point of it

5:54

is to ensure that only U.S. citizens

5:56

participate in federal elections. Where does

5:58

that stand? the

6:00

state of the state. We are

6:02

going to bring the save act to

6:04

the house floor the week after July

6:06

4th recess. We brought it

6:08

through committee about a month

6:10

ago. The bill would

6:12

require documentary proof of

6:14

citizenship in order to

6:17

register to vote for federal elections. We

6:20

don't have control over the state

6:22

and local elections nor should we.

6:26

It would have the practical effect of

6:28

the state of the state. We

6:31

cannot allow jurisdictions like California and

6:34

New York and other places to say we

6:36

want to be able to vote in

6:38

state and local elections. Don't worry.

6:42

We won't register to vote in

6:44

state and local elections. Trust

6:46

us. Don't worry.

6:50

Current federal law prohibits states

6:52

from being able to go check and

6:54

make sure you're a state

6:56

and local elections. One for

6:58

federal where they're prohibited. My

7:02

legislation along with Mike Lee and the

7:04

senate would not only fix that making it to where

7:06

you can check,

7:08

it would require it. We think it's

7:10

important. Hopefully unanimous

7:13

Republican support. Some

7:16

people raise federalism questions like

7:18

Mike Lee and Chip Haroy. Should

7:22

we require that everybody who votes across

7:24

this country be a citizen? We think

7:26

so. There's documented evidence of abuse of

7:28

this. We know that non-citizens have voted.

7:30

We should clean that out. We've

7:32

got 51 and a half million four and more people in

7:34

this country. We need to make sure we have elections that

7:37

are secure. Seems reasonable enough.

7:39

Now to the national debt. The

7:41

congressional budget office has just estimated

7:43

that the U.S. debt will reach

7:45

a stunning $56

7:47

trillion by 2034. That's just 10 years

7:50

from now. You've been a proponent

7:52

of reducing the budget deficit, sometimes even

7:54

fighting against your own party to do

7:56

it. What will it take

7:58

to get fiscal responsibility? in Congress?

8:01

Well, look, you know, the stats were $35 almost trillion in debt. The

8:05

clock is ticking, $1.1 trillion in interest this

8:08

year, which is far more than our 800 and roughly $75 billion we spend

8:12

on defense through the Pentagon. It's extraordinary,

8:14

and it's frankly, it's just

8:16

out of control. I'm not saying that hyperbolically. I

8:18

mean, literally, it is out of control. Republicans

8:21

have been giving lip service to spending

8:23

restraint now for at least two

8:25

solid decades. I think Republicans need to be

8:27

held accountable as much or more than

8:30

Democrats. Democrats at least just acknowledge they're totally

8:32

fine spending lots of money. They would

8:34

just tax people more. And we all agree the more

8:36

you tax, the more you constrain economic growth, you don't

8:39

really bring in as much revenue. We

8:42

want to have a higher GDP and keep

8:44

the percentage of the revenue coming in from

8:46

GDP at a good clip, but we want

8:48

to create economic growth. But all that being

8:50

said, when we've gone away from being able

8:53

to point to tax and spend Democrats, now

8:55

we're just all spend and spend politicians. Now,

8:57

I don't lump myself into that category because

8:59

I vote against virtually every spending bill. But

9:02

in order to change it, which was your question,

9:04

you have to force it. The American

9:06

people will have to force it either through something

9:08

like an Article 5 convention of the states or

9:11

you're going to have to force your member of

9:13

Congress. Can't give them a hall pass because you

9:15

like them because they're nice. They come back. They

9:17

do a little hot dog thing for the July.

9:19

Now you've known them for 20 years. No, you've

9:22

got to force them. You're going to stop spending

9:24

money we don't have. And look, I'm

9:26

going to throw everything I have at it. But

9:28

the problem here is endless wars, endless

9:30

conflict, nonstop throwing money at defense. That

9:33

is the Republican way of then eating

9:35

all of the other money. And nobody

9:37

will touch the fact that Medicare is

9:39

filing out of control because our health

9:41

care prices are dominated by monopolies and

9:44

by Obamacare and regulations that are making

9:46

health care so unaffordable. Medicare is filing

9:48

out of control. So if you want

9:50

to fix it, constrain spending, stop endless

9:52

wars, get our military focus on what

9:54

it's supposed to be focused on. Cut

9:57

the bureaucracy across the board and cut

9:59

the regulations. and the bureaucrats enforcing it

10:02

and get healthcare prices down with radical

10:04

transformative healthcare policy changes. Congressman,

10:06

thank you so much for coming on and giving

10:08

us your unfiltered response. Hey, thanks guys, y'all. Take

10:11

care and have a good week next week. That

10:13

was Congressman Chip Roy, and this has been an

10:16

extra edition of Morning Wire.