‘Not Getting The Job Done’: Chip Roy Says Senate Changes To Trump’s Megabill Is Dead On Arrival In House

Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy said the initial Senate draft of President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” is dead on arrival in the House barring changes to green energy tax breaks and the bill’s broader impact on budget deficits.

Roy, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, has been a leading voice calling for a full repeal of green energy tax credits enacted under former President Joe Biden. He torched the Senate for “backsliding” on House language by phasing down green energy subsidies on a less aggressive timeline and for weakening a House plan to transfer some of the costs of federal food aid to states, in a press call with reporters Tuesday afternoon.

Roy said he and his House Freedom Caucus (HFC) colleagues have been engaged in frequent conversations with the Senate about the upper chamber’s proposed changes and argued the Senate’s draft bill will not pass muster in the House. Following the Senate draft clearing the upper chamber, the House and Senate will have to adopt identical provisions before sending the package to the White House for signature.

“The message we’re delivering back — both to Senate leadership and to Senate conservatives — that they’re not getting the job done in terms of terminating the ‘Green New Scam’ subsidies, or frankly going far enough on Medicaid.”

“I have said publicly, and I’m speaking for Chip Roy here — not anyone else — but I think there are some like-minded individuals that are not going to vote for a bill that does that,” Roy told reporters. “It is definitively dead if it were to come over to the House in anything resembling its current form: the IRA provisions, the ‘deficit damage,’ some of the other policy changes that we think are concerning.”