Chip Roy
Bio | Chip Roy has formerly held careers in the banking, technology, and oil industries. He is also a former federal prosecutor. |
Status and Position | Current US House of Representatives of Texas |
Political Party and Jurisdiction | Republican, Texas |
Elections | Election Jurisdiction | Started Campaign | Campaign Status | Poll Rankings (of the vote) |
| 2020 House of Representatives Election TX-21 | TX-21 | Yes | Running | 47.0% |
Campaign Financing | About two-thirds of Roy's campaign contributions come from individuals. However, he seeks to uphold the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision as he has been endorsed by the Citizens United Political Victory Fund. |
Voting Rights | Roy has remained mostly silent on the issue of voting rights. |
Opinions on Issues
Issues | Stance | Summary |
| Universal Healthcare | Against | The congressman does not support healthcare for all. Roy sees the healthcare system as largely crippled by government takeover. He would like to see the Affordable Care Act repealed in order to free up the market and give companies and consumers the ability to choose in a healthcare market with competitive pricing. |
| Socialized Healthcare | Against | Roy has opposed any steps towards socialized healthcare such as Obamacare. |
| Private Healthcare | For | As Roy does not trust the government to dictate the healthcare market, he would like to enable private healthcare to dictate costs and services in the industry. |
| LGBT Rights | Against | He does not promote LGBT rights. Roy holds corporate and religious freedom as a higher priority than LGBT rights. He has released a public statement against those who have denounced Chick-Fil-A, a business accused of LGBT discrimination for its adherence to Christian values and lobbying efforts. |
| Taxes | Against | Roy advocates for decreased taxes. He has heavily defended legislation that creates tax cuts in order to put more money into the hands of individuals and businesses. As part of his position on tax policy, he promises to fight to make Trump's tax legislation permanent. |
| Flat Tax Rate | For | Roy maintains that the tax system must be heavily simplified in order to cut taxes and move towards a flat tax rate. He has heavily defended legislation that creates tax cuts in order to put more money into the hands of individuals and businesses. As part of his position on tax policy, he promises to fight to make Trump's tax legislation permanent. |
| Abortion | Against | He is pro-life. Roy has repeatedly vocalized the fact that he is firmly invested in prioritizing the sanctity of life. He points to liberals as avoiding the barbarism and horror that is associated with abortion and Planned Parenthood. |
| Gun Control | Against | He does not support gun control. Roy fervently stands behind the Second Amendment. He sees the Democrats as using universal background checks as a guise to punish and create a registry of those who seek to use guns to defend themselves. |
| Assisted Suicide | Against | He opposes assisted suicide. Roy fervently stands behind the Second Amendment. He sees the Democrats as using universal background checks as a guise to punish and create a registry of those who seek to use guns to defend themselves. |
| Government Interference | Against | From economic markets to gun ownership, Roy does not believe that the government should have a role. |
| Planned Parenthood | Against | As a pro-life politician, Roy is against funding abortion. |
| Welfare | Against | He is unsupportive of welfare programs. Roy sees welfare as wasteful spending by government. Therefore, he does not want to expand funding to Social Security or any other government program that is redistributive. |
| Welfare | Unknown | Roy has not expressed an opinion on stem cell research. |
| Death Penalty | For | He supports the death penalty. As a former prosecutor, Roy has experience with sentencing and he has even shared his experience watching an execution. He believes that the court should have the freedom and discretion to exercise the death penalty. |
| Mandatory Prison Sentence | Unknown | Despite being a federal prosecutor, he has not taken a stance on mandatory minimums. |
| Military Spending | For | Roy has expressed his opinion in favor of increasing defense spending in order to make sure the military has the ability to carry out its duties. |
| War on Terrorism | For | Roy has stated that if we do not take action against terrorists, those who commit atrocities against Americans were going unpunished. |
| Foreign Policy International Interaction | For | Roy generally is supportive of international interaction. The congressman has been involved in negotiating modern provisions for NAFTA, and later the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. These are both two huge international trade deals that he sees as benefitting our economy back home such as the agricultural sector. |
| United Nations power | Unknown | Roy does not have an opinion on the United Nations. |
| Nationalism | Unknown | Roy does not have an explicit opinion on nationalism. |
| Free Markets | For | Roy advocates for free markets. The congressman firmly maintains that free markets without taxes or regulation is the most efficient way to spur growth among entrepreneurship and small businesses. In addition, he believes that a free market creates more incentive to invest and make capital gains in the free market. |
| Brexit | Unknown | Roy has not taken a stance on Brexit. |
| Affirmative Action | Against | He opposes affirmative action. |
| Government Spending | Against | As the congressman who single-handedly held back the COVID relief package to get his colleagues to think about the fiscal implications of spending, he does not support government spending. |
| Charter Schools | For | Roy has denounced other politicians who threaten to ban charter schools. |
| Common Core | Against | He stands against Common Core. Roy has expressed his desire to get Washington out of Texas education. He does not believe that top-down standards such as Common Core are effective at raising standards in his district. |
| Clean Energy | Against | He opposes clean energy. Roy sees subsidies as an imbalanced interruption of the free market. He has also spoken out against the Green New Deal claiming that it is likely to lower the living standards for everybody by raising energy costs. |
| Religious Freedom | For | Roy supports freedom of religion. The congressman has made a statement defending the company Chick-Fil-A when the company came under fire for its funding of Christian and anti-LGBT lobbying groups. He has argued that individuals and businesses should have the right to practice their religion freely. |
| Separation of Church and State | Against | Roy has praised legislation that enables the entanglement of church and state such as the bill to protect prayer in school. |
| Slavery Reparations | Unknown | He does not have a strong stance on slavery reparations. |
| Border Control | For | He advocates for increased security. Roy has centered his platform on making America safe and secure. To do this, he stands behind Trump's effort to construct a physical wall. He also takes it one step farther and sees the need for increased internal security against illegal immigration as well. |
| Passenger Profiling | For | He contends the we must do whatever we can to address the threat of terrorism. |
| DACA | Against | Roy has praised attacks against DACA. |
| Sanctuary Cities | Against | Roy believes that law enforcement should do whatever it can wherever it can in order to help secure America externally and internally. |
| Legalizing Marijuana | Against | Roy does not support the legalization of marijuana. |