Texas GOP Rep. Brian Babin is pressing legislation that would ban any future federal bailouts for states that pay race-based reparations.

“This is something that needs to be done because these states want to give reparations on the basis of skin color and slavery — something that happened 160 or 170 years ago,” Babin told the John Solomon Reports podcast on Tuesday. “They’re going to expect the federal government to bail them out.”

The legislation ‘em titled the “No Bailouts for Reparations Act” was introduced last month and has attracted 13 co-sponsors.