**Headline: GOP Rep. Chip Roy Sparks Outrage with Proposal to "Sunset the Social Contract"**
**Capitol Hill, D.C.** — In what critics are calling a brazen attack on the very fabric of American society, Texas Republican Chip Roy has introduced a legislative framework that legal scholars say would effectively dismantle the post-New Deal consensus. Roy’s "Sunset Act" proposes mandatory, automatic expiration of every federal social program—including Social Security, Medicare, and public education funding—every five years, requiring a supermajority to reauthorize.
"This isn't governance; it's societal arson," said Dr. Lena Hartfield, a moral philosopher at Georgetown. "It transforms the promise of a stable retirement and healthcare for the elderly into a permanent game of political brinkmanship. You are telling a 68-year-old diabetic that her insulin coverage depends on whether a frenzied news cycle and a fired-up base will allow a vote next Tuesday."
Roy’s office defended the bill as "a necessary shock to the system to restore fiscal responsibility and individual liberty." But the moral calculus is being sharply criticized as a "final blow to the common good." Faith leaders from multiple denominations have condemned the proposal, arguing it legally normalizes a cruel form of social triage.
"His logic is a rot from within," wrote columnist Maya Torres in a viral thread. "He believes that if we can barely get a budget passed now, we should make every safety net a hostage to political chaos. This isn't conservatism; it's the moral equivalent of tossing seniors and the disabled off a lifeboat to save on fuel costs. It signals a society that has lost the stomach for its own humanity."
As of this evening, the hashtag #RoyTheRipper is trending, with voters across party lines expressing alarm at the precedent of making survival itself subject to the whim of the next election cycle.