(upbeat music) The Senate Armed Services Committee moved forward a Defense Authorization Act that would require women to register for the draft. The move has sparked severe backlash from Republicans in the House. In this episode, we sit down with Congressman Chip Roy to discuss select service for women, keeping non-citizens from voting and other congressional controversies. I'm Daily Wire editor-in-chief, John Bickley. It's Sunday, June 30th, and this is an extra edition of Morning Wire. College is expensive, but being a man shouldn't be. Score 60% off Jeremy's Razor's one year of shaving and dominate campus life. While others can form, you'll stand out. Clean, shaving, and unapologetic. The Precision 5 delivers an exceptionally smooth and close shave designed with a precision trimmer for keeping your edge in an ergonomic handle for superior control. Major in masculinity@jeremiesraisers.com today. Joining us to discuss registering women for the draft and the House Republican response to it is Congressman Chip Roy from Texas. Congressman, thank you so much for coming on. So first, how did this female selective service proposal come about? - Well, what you have first of all, just to lay the context, the House Republicans, we passed the National Defense Authorization Act. It's a pretty solid conservative bill. It cuts out a lot of the DEI and critical race theory and all of the offices over the Pentagon gets rid of the transgender surgery stuff and those kinds of things. And it's a good bill and it certainly does not. Go down the road of forcing women, our daughters, if you will, to register for selective service for the draft. Unfortunately, a small group over in the Senate, including Republicans, felt it important to include it in the Senate committee bill, the Senate Armed Services Committee, voted for the amendment and then voted out the NDA out of committee out of the floor with Republican support for a provision that would force women to register for selective service. I think this is bullish. I fought this three years ago and they first were trying to bring this up, fought it vigorously. We were able to kill it, both the House and Senate had a version that included it. We killed it over here in the House, killed it last time. This time we kept it out of the House. Now we gotta go fight it out of the Senate. - And as for the people who support this bill, what are their arguments for it? - Yeah, they don't have really good arguments other than just, okay, well, equality, everybody should be able to serve or treat it the same. I'm like, well, first of all, you can go sign up and you can volunteer. Second of all, I'm still not a fan of women in combat, regardless of whether it's volunteer or not. It's certainly not compulsory. And importantly, though, what I hear over here is chip, don't ever worry like that. They'll never be drafted into combat. We'll never do it. Then they'll say, well, we'll only need a draft if we're in a land war with China. I'm like, well, we're gonna land war with China and we're losing our, I think it's like 17 million men between the age of 18 and 60 and fighting age. We're losing those guys and we need women. Then you're not gonna need them unless you feel like you're gonna need to go put them down on the front lines. All of this, by the way, ignores all the performance, right? We've got study after study after study that shows that women cannot perform at the same level in combat. These are military DOD commissioned studies. There was one from 2015 or the Marine Corps, $36 million, by the way, to say that mixed units were outperformed by all male units. That's mixed, by the way, 70% of the time in combat tasks. And by the way, after multiple iterations of the Army Combat Fitness Test, the Army Navy dropped its gender neutral standards after nearly 50% of active duty enlisted female soldiers could not pass previous versions of the test. By the way, 92% of men could. - How has the role of women in the military evolved since 2016 and what impact does that have on the current debate over the draft? - Well, first of all, they can't even decide what the hell a woman is, okay? Including a Pentagon, including a defense. Talking about all the Title IX nonsense of what's going on and you can't even actually acknowledge the difference between man and woman. But what you've got going on at the Pentagon is an affirmative effort by the Pentagon to force the DEI stuff onto not just people who've been list, but onto Americans. A draft is a whole nother issue. They can't acknowledge that there is, in fact, just two sexes. Why would I entrust them with my daughter? - When question on the Army on this, the Army Secretary, Christine Warmov, admitted to Senator Cotton in a hearing. Quote, "We wanted to make sure we didn't unfairly "have standards for a particular subgroup "that people, you know, couldn't perform. "We didn't want to disadvantage any subgroup." Are you (beep) me? This is crazy. - Now, a Senate committee has already passed this 2025 National Defense Authorization Act. What are the next steps for that? Will you be able to stop it? - Well, I hope so. I mean, first of all, every Republican Senator, I mean, I have Democrats Senator, too, should be shamed if they vote for the National Defense Authorization Act. I include any of my friends in that category, by the way. No Republican should vote for the National Defense Authorization Act in the Senate, including a provision that would draft your daughters. I mean, any of the fathers over there, if they think this is a good idea, I want them to go on to TV and explain it if they vote for it. Number one, number two. If the Senate Republicans are too cowardly to stop this and they send it to a conference, then we in the House must do our duty to stop it. And I'm gonna put every single ounce of my energy into ensuring that we stop it if it gets to the conference. But it shouldn't get there. We ought to speak with one loud and clear voice on this. - Now, shifting gears a bit here to the issue of election integrity. You coauthored along with Senator Mike Lee, the SAVE Act. That's the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. The point of it is to ensure that only U.S. citizens participated federal elections. Where does that stand? - So we hope to bring the SAVE Act to the House floor the week after July 4th recess. We brought it through committee, through the House Admin Committee about a month ago, as unanimous Republican support, Democrats oppose it. The bill would, as you described it, require documentary proof citizenship in order to register to vote for federal elections. Now, we don't have control over the state and local elections, nor should we. Of course, it would have the practical effect of probably forcing that change. And that's not necessarily a bad thing in this case. But bottom line is, in a Republican form of government, in our republic, with 50 states, we cannot allow jurisdictions like California, and New York, and other places to say, oh, well, whatever, you know, we want to legally be able to vote in state and local elections. Wink, wink, nod, nod, don't worry. They won't abuse those security numbers. We won't register to vote in state and local elections that have that bleed over to federal. Trust us, don't worry. Meanwhile, current federal law, under motor voter, prohibit states from being able to go check and make sure you're a citizen. Arizona has to maintain two sets of rules. One to check on their state and local elections, 'cause they do that. And one for federal where they're prohibited. So my legislation along with Mike Lee and the Senate would not only fix that, making it where you can check. It would actually require it. We think it's important. We think there'll be, hopefully unanimous Republican support. You know, some people raise federalism questions with it, like Mike Lee and Chippurroy. I mean, you're two of your biggest federalists, right? We don't like big government. You were talking about federal elections here. Shouldn't we require that everybody who votes across this country be a citizen? We think so. There's documented evidence of abuse of this. We know that non-citizens are voted. We should clean that out. We've got 51 1/2 million foreign-born people in this country. We need to make sure we have elections that are secure. - That seems reasonable enough. Now, to the national debt, the Congressional Budget Office has just estimated that the US debt will reach a stunning $56 trillion by 2034. That's just 10 years from now. You've been a proponent of reducing the budget deficit, sometimes even fighting against your own party to do it. What will it take to get fiscal responsibility in Congress? - Well, look, you know, the stats, there were $35 almost trillion in debt. The clock is ticking, $1.1 trillion in interest this year, which is far more than our $875 billion we spend on defense through the Pentagon. It's extraordinary and it's frankly just out of control. I'm not saying that hyperbolicly. I mean, literally it is out of control. Republicans have been giving lip service to spending restraint now for at least two solid decades. I think Republicans need to be held accountable as much or more the Democrats. Democrats at least just acknowledge they're totally fine spending lots of money. They would just tax people more. And we all agree, the more you tax, the more you can strain economic growth. You don't really bring in as much revenue. We want to have a higher GDP and keep the percentage of the revenue coming in from GDP at a good clip, but we want to create economic growth. But all that being said, when we've gone away from being able to point to tax and spend Democrats, now we're just all spending to spend politicians. Now, I don't love myself into that category because I vote against virtually every spending bill. But in order to change it, which was your question, you have to force it. The American people will have to force it either through something like an Article 5 Convention of the States or you're gonna have to force your member of Congress. Can't give them a whole pass 'cause you like 'em 'cause they're nice. They come back, they do the little hot dog thing in Fourth of July and all you've known 'em for 20 years. No, you've got to force that. You're gonna stop spending money we don't have. And look, I'm gonna throw everything I have at it, but the problem here is endless wars, endless conflict, nonstop throwing money at defense, that is the Republican way of then eating all of the other money. And nobody will touch the fact that Medicare is spiraling out of control because our healthcare prices are dominated by monopolies and by Obamacare and regulations that are making healthcare so unappordable, Medicare is spiraling out of control. So if you wanna fix it, constrain spending, stop endless wars, get our military focus on what it's supposed to be focused on, cut the bureaucracy across the board and cut the regulations and the bureaucrats enforcing it and get healthcare prices down with radical transformative healthcare policy team. - Congressman, thank you so much for coming on and giving us your unfiltered response. - Hey, thanks guys, y'all. Take care and have a good week next week. - That was Congressman Chip Roy and this has been an extra edition of Morning Wire. (upbeat music) - Bet Online has one of the largest offerings in betting odds in the world. Beyond traditional sports, Bet Online gives you the option to bet on political events like the outcome of the presidential election, whether Hunter Biden serves jail time before 2025 or who's gonna be the next Republican speaker. Political betting allows you to wager on real-world events outside the realm of sports. 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