Rep. Roy on The Todd Starnes Show: ‘Stop using the power of government over the American people’

WASHINGTON —On Monday, Rep. Chip Roy (TX-21) joined Todd Starnes in a radio interview to discuss the government's growing demands that Americans get the COVID vaccine, and his fight against this significant threat to citizens' private medical decisions.

Full audio of the interview is available here [starting at 1:01:00] and some key quotes are below:

• We the people- all of us- whether you're an elected member of Congress, like myself, or someone just trying to get through life doing your job, we've got to go send a loud message right now: you don't get to do this, you don't get to use the power of government to come in and say that I must take a shot or I must wear a mask. We're going to get through this together by using commonsense, following science, talking to doctors, and doing what's in our interest.
  
• This is such a shameful direction to go, to scare our country, to risk people's lives frankly, to actually probably cause people to not to want to get the vaccine because you're going out and doing this absurdity with the mask mandate, having members of Congress parade around the floor of the House, and then threaten my staff with arrest. [Nancy Pelosi] can go to hell. I'm not having any part of that.
  
• I'm not going to tell [my staff] whether to take the vaccine or not, it's not my place. I think there are people who are vulnerable for whom the vaccine makes a lot of sense, I think there are people who have legitimate questions- they ought to be able to exercise their right to conscience to decide what's in their best interest, but we should not be jamming it into our kids arms, and we should not be doing it because Nancy Pelosi says we must … Stop using the power of government over the American people.