Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, declined to attend the House Republican retreat in Florida this week, saying in a statement that he would rather stay in Texas than spend “$2K to hear more excuses” from legislators.

Roy, who has clashed with President Donald Trump in the past and supported Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the 2024 GOP primaries, on Tuesday rebuffed reports that he is attending the House GOP retreat at one of Trump’s golf resorts in the Miami area.

“It is being reported I am not at the so-called Republican retreat in Florida. I am not,” Roy wrote on social media. “I am in Texas, with my family & meeting with constituents, rather than spending $2K to hear more excuses for increasing deficits & not being in DC to deliver Trump’s border security $ ASAP.”

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