<\/p>\n
While the Republican majority is only guaranteed for six more months, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, is urging his GOP colleagues to \u201cfinish the job.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a letter sent to House and Senate Republicans on Friday, Roy laid out his\u00a0agenda\u00a0for the rest of the 119th Congress, including codifying border security, pausing immigration, making America healthy, and protecting Americans from warrantless surveillance.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were elected to deliver what we promised the American people, not to campaign for reelection. Delivering on decisive policy mandates is the best way to grow a majority,\u201d Roy wrote.\n<\/p>\n
In his letter, the Texas congressman identifies 14 major points he is pushing the House and Senate to accomplish while Republicans still hold the majority. While six months remain until the start of the 120th Congress, there are fewer than 50 legislative days left in which representatives will be in session in Washington, D.C.\n<\/p>\n
At the top of the list is to codify President Donald Trump\u2019s border security policies. Roy wants Republicans to follow through on ending illegal immigration and pausing legal immigration and visa programs. In the letter, he calls to end free health care, education, and other taxpayer-subsidized benefits for illegal immigrants. He also wants Congress to defund sanctuary cities.\n<\/p>\n
Roy highlighted immigration policy passed in the \u201cOne Big, Beautiful Bill,\u201d but he added it wasn\u2019t enough. According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, America loses $200 billion per year from illegal immigrants sending money back across the U.S. border to their home countries. The legislation taxes 1% on all remittances, but Roy is suggesting hiking remittance fees to \u201cat least 25%.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Also in the letter, Roy continued his calls for banning Sharia law and designating the Muslim Brotherhood and the\u00a0Council on American\u2013Islamic Relations\u00a0as terrorist groups.\n<\/p>\n
Second on the list is passing the SAVE America Act, which has currently stalled in the Senate. The legislation, aggressively promoted by Trump, would require proof of citizenship to register to vote, and photo ID at the polls, protecting American elections from ineligible voters and voter fraud.\n<\/p>\n
.@chiproytx is pushing a FISA amendment to kill the vehicle kill switch, a Biden-era surveillance mandate.\n<\/p>\n