In this episode of The Tudor Dixon Podcast, Congressman Tim Burchett joins Tudor for a candid look at Washington’s dysfunction amid the ongoing government shutdown. He shares his take on what’s driving leadership failures across generations, how political messaging has lost its punch, and why civic engagement from young Americans is critical to the nation’s future. Burchett also tackles the growing crises in education and public safety—calling out federal overreach and making the case for a return to local control and core American values. The Tudor Dixon Podcast is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network. For more visit TudorDixonPodcast.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Today we have Congressman
Tim Burchett with us. He is from Tennessee, but you
are in Washington, d C. Right now handling this government shutdown.
I just want to say we're recording this on Wednesday,
and anything had happened. But tell us the behind the
scenes right now, if you don't mind.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Well, I think there's a lot of things going on.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I think what part of it really nobody's addressed is.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
The it's Schumer is looking in his rear view mirror.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
He is looking at Alexandra a Casio Corte or a
Zye call her Cortez. She is probably chomping at the
bit to run for US Senate. Schumer knows that he
has been left by me. He's a liberal, but this don't.
(00:51):
I don't know that he's approached approached the Marxist level yet.
And I think he sees New York going completely calm,
this Marxist for this, this lunatic they're getting ready to elect,
and he knows that his base, he's got to have
that base, so he's going to throw everything at this.
(01:12):
You know, the transgender surgery, the the health care for illegals,
and that's what he's looking at. He doesn't care about
the country, and Jefferies is just a it's just along
for the ride because the House is already We've already
passed the bill.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
It's in the Senate, and it's clearly you.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Know, the the Democrats are, you know, all in DC.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I wanted to correct you.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I'm sorry, I'm in I'm in Knoxville today, actually so,
and we're not. There's no reason for us to be
there because there's nothing going on. The House has already
done it's business. It's up to the Senate now. And
I think that's what Schumer is doing. That's his ultimate plan,
is to appease his far liberal base. He could care
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less about the country. He needs to go back to
flip and raw hamburgers with cheese on him on his grill.
And you know, I think he needs to go play
with his grandkids if he has any, and get on
with his life because this thing is clearly passed him
by the country. It's not buying this one bit. They
know this is about providing health care for illegals.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
You make an interesting point, though he is at the
high end of the age range in his party. This
seems to be a trend in their party to have
people well into their eighties and sometimes into their nineties.
I think that they have held off the younger generation,
the generation of forty to fifty year olds, and now
they have the twenty and thirty year olds coming in
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that are the far progressive left. They wouldn't give a
power when they could to the next generation. Now they're
afraid of what this communist power is. But they're going
to the far farther to the left. It's shocking to me.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Well, it's just it's I think it's as a leadership.
You see it in all parties. It's about preserving their leadership.
It's an arrogance that thinks that they're not going to
be able to, you know, to succeed without them. I
can remember one time here in Knox County when they
put in turn limits and they were interviewing some of
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the county courthouse folks, and one of them got on
the news and said, I just don't know if this
county is going to be able to function without us.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
And I thought it was a joke.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
You know, I had to check my calendar make sure
what in April first, But honest to goodness, they were
serious and that's the mentality of this. But you get
that because you've got you've got these staffers that walk
around and you know, I don't know, they might heat
the commode seat before you go into the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I mean, it's ridiculous how these leadership They've got their posse,
they got their suburbans, they got security four deep, they're
never waiting in line anywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
How much of an effect do you think they've had
on the younger generation because we talked to Attorney Point
Group in Northern Michigan just a few weeks ago, and
those young people were saying, we're kind of in this
in between where part of our generation is saying we
don't want big government, and part of our generation is saying, well,
what is the government going to do for us? And
(04:13):
I asked them, what are you expecting from government? Why
do you feel like you are owed something by the government.
The government should be there to provide public safety and infrastructure,
but what else are you wanting from them? They have
gotten to the point, the Democrats have gotten to the
point where they've convinced young people that Democrat that the
government is is essential to their life and should provide
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them financial relief.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I agree. I think the government was designed to be maybe.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
An ambulance carrier, and it's become a transit system and
that's you know, it's just we've allowed that to happen.
More and more taxes, more and more regularition just kind
of ease into us. We have higher property, property taxes,
higher sales tax, user phase going down the list, and
it's and then you had income tax and all the
egregious things that brings on. So yeah, we've allowed it,
(05:05):
is what we've done. We got to quit when you
have twelve percent of the population in k Street lobbyist
running the show.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
It's true. We've seen it in Michigan right now, there's this,
I mean, we have the Michigan government is shutdown as well.
We have this battle over whether or not we're going
to pay for everybody's school lunch. It's such a bizarre
battle because it's very hard for the Republicans to come
out and say, well, why should we subsidize the wealthy,
But essentially free and reduced lunch is always going to
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be there for the people that need it. This is
now giving free lunch to the wealthy families, And it's
a really hard it's a really hard semantics argument to
have with the people of Michigan to say, why do
you want to pay more taxes to pay for people
who can afford their kids to have lunch to pay
for their lunch?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Well, that's that don't want to make anybody feel uncomfortable
kind of bs. When I was a kid, I'm sixty
one years old and I can remember the kids that
we're on the free and reduced line unch.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Nobody knew it.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I was, I guess, just a tenant, and the teacher
would give them a little slug that they would use
for their lunch, and.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Then they would know.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
The captier workers would know that they just because they
could see them, you know. And we didn't pay attention.
Just they just handed them a coin, is all it was.
And just like we were handing them a coin. And
nobody was made fun of, nobody was pointed the finger at.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It was just part of it.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
And now, yeah, there's there's areas in mind District where
the people are a lot of wealthy folks and a
lot of poor folks in combined, and then they just
give everybody a free and reduce lunch and it's a
one size fits all. I think that's that is why
Donald J. Trump wants to get out of the education business.
One of the reasons has just become such a bureaucracy.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
We when Jimmy Carter moved the Department of Educing up
to Education up to a cabinet level position in nineteen
seventy six, we were number one in the world. Now,
trillions of dollars later, we're in the twenty if we're
lucky in some categories.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
So it is.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
You see miss Winingarten on their ranting and raving for
her teachers' union, and now we find out they've spending
well over one hundred.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Thousand dollars promoting her book. Their union dues.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Right, which is essentially our money that is being paid
to teachers, and then they're stripping it off of their paycheck.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Exactly, exactly, And the only reason most teachers are in
there is for insurance, if you talk to them. In reality,
my mam always a classroom teacher, my sister was. I
have a degree in education, certified K through twelve in Tennessee,
so I get that, and they make a push for it.
When I was in college and I made those points
to her, to our director and the director of I
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forget the title of education, but you know, and all
the philosophy of education classes I had to take in,
all the garbage that they need to teach how to
and a very few teacher classes you how to actually
teach school, and until they throw you in the deep
end when you'd hear student teaching, and then you wonder
why you had such a large burnout right in education.
(08:10):
And then these poor teachers would just run over by
these union bosses, and it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Well, now we're suffering with DEI. We see that at
our university level. You've seen that in Tennessee. There have
been some undercover videos that have come out. Even though
the president said no more DEI, it's still happening.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
That's right, they just rename it.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
And the problem we have is and follow me on this,
and I've made this a point when we are our
great Senator Marshall Blackbird raised ruckus and had one of
them kicked out, I believe at MTSU. But the problem
is it's like Kudzu. I don't know if you're from
the South or not. You're you're a parent to Michigan.
Aren't you in the cold country. But kudzu as a plant,
(08:52):
it's an invasive species, and it just grows everywhere on
the hillside.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
They say, you've got to close.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Your window is at night, it'll crawl land and snatch
your kids back in the old days. But anyway, it
grows everywhere up here, and this is all over and
you and you cut it down, and they got all
these new plans. They'll bring in goats. Oh, goats will
do it. And I don't know they nap all it.
I'm not sure they use all these chemicals. But guess what,
it always comes back in five or six different places.
(09:19):
And that's what our colleges and universities are. We we
fire these people. Well, what we've got to do is
fire the people that are doing the hiring, these these
departments that allow this kind of thing, because it's going
to come back bigger and better and stronger under these
liberal policies in the future. And that and we should
and these legislators, I mean, you know, they get schmooths.
(09:41):
They get invited to the skyboxes all over the country,
you know, to be the football games and and and
the and the heavy hitters paddle on the back and
tell them how great they are, and then they just
keep funding this garbage. And then here we are at
University of Tennessee and noxletony with somebody with a lesbian
studies degree.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
That's trashy, Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
You know, after he's dead and from what we've understood,
you know, I just and what does that prepare somebody
to do in life?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
No, I'm go down and work down at the coffee shop.
I guess you know. We need to teach people. We
need to get back to education.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
We need to teach people how to how to read,
write and do arithmetic. But if we're going to teach
them a trade, teach him a trade. Go to the
trade school. There's this beautiful minorgree. It's technological adult education.
If you're going to teach them to be a lawyer,
cinema law school. If you're going to be a doctor,
put them on that track ourly, medical chemistry, those kind
of things, and you know, and go down those lines.
(10:40):
If they're going to be an electrician, I'll teach them
how to do electric how to do it. But all
the other stuff, it's nonsense. It's just fluff, and it
drains the tax base, and that's where these liberal policies
come in.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on
the Tutor Dixon Podcast. So I went to college in
the nineties and I don't remember having any type of
politics on college campuses. I do remember Bill Clinton coming
to my college campus, but it wasn't as though people
were completely absorbed by it. I think it was mostly
(11:15):
because of social media. But you make such a great
point about the Charlie Kirk situation. We went to, like
I said, we went to Northern Michigan University last weekend.
We sat down with the Turning Point kids. There. The
kid who is the young man who has organized the
Turning Point group, he said he put out his table
on campus to recruit more people. There were students coming
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by yelling your fascists, you're horrible. But the worst part
is an actual professor came up and poured his coffee
on the kid.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Think about that, Well, they need to be unemployed, but
that's tenure for you. Yeah, he probably checked his union
rules before he did that, and it was probably specifically alliwed.
But what we've got to get control of public education.
We got to defund it, and we got to quit
sending money places like Harvard that have multi billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Bank rolls they're sitting on and we just got to
get away from it.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
We've we've recruited people from overseas to come into our
China specifically, and we all the liberals tell us, oh,
this is great, we'll teach them the American way of life. Well,
in fact, now they're infecting our way of life, not
all of them, but some of them with communists propaganda
and they infiltrate in their long term and communists have
a long term plan. Americans. You know, we want our
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pizzas in about thirty minutes. And that's about our Dadgoma
ticchet Span.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Let me ask you about crime. Because you have the
city of Memphis in your state. We have the city
of Detroit. We are constantly in a competition as to
who is the most violent city in America. Donald Trump
has said he wants to come into Memphis. He's sending
the National Guard. Your governor is on board with that,
Ovenor is obviously in Michigan, not on board with getting
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the National Guard into the city of Detroit. What do
you see as the possibilities there to improve the city
of Memphis.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I think that it's a it's a great opportunity for Tennessee.
I worry that we're sending these troops in that may
be possibly unarmed. I think that's a bad idea that's
going to get somebody killed. I think you would watched that.
When I was in the state legislature, we lived at
unarmed traffic people and things in certain areas, and we
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most of the time voted against it because obviously there's
a major crime and you look like law enforcement. Somebody
runs up to you and said I need your help. Well,
you know you can do is write them a ticket
or a radio at them or something. So I think
we better, we better do it right. But you're right, Memphis,
Tennessee has a higher death toll than Mexico City.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
So yeah, it is horrible.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
And it's when I'm on Nash Knows CNN, they always
point that out.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Oh, red state Tennessee has Memphis.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I said, yeah, but it's been run by a Democrat
machine for longer than I live. He used to be
the Crump machine, and then the Ford family r ain't
it and now it's just who knows who's running it.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
But it's it's an awful scenario right now.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
And what you see is the best people in the
world are held hostage by some of the worst people
in the world. When we had the mayor of Washington,
d C. And all their people in in our oversight committee,
I'll never forget it. It was five white guys up front,
and all the black folks were sitting in the back
of the community activists and they were just shaking their
head the whole time.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
And I said, and I brought that. I brought that up.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I said, I see five white guys up here, but
I don't see anybody representing the community.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I said, I'm.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Pretty sure there's a pretty large black population in DC,
you know. And after I walked out, one of the
more prominent black Democrats Congress thank me. He said, Tim,
that needed to be said. And I said, and I'm
glad you said it. And I said, thank you. And
I get it. It's just there's a sense of denial,
there's a sense of ownership, and there's an arrogance, and
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people are dying because of the people that can't speak,
aren't able to speak. The people that are in power,
the preachers and the shady politicians, they're all going to
get up front of the mic and holler about racism
or whatever, but there's little There's mamas out there that
are crying every night because her babies are getting killed
and there's no reason for that, and we can stop it,
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and it needs to be stopped.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
We see the same thing in Michigan we have not
too long ago. A few years ago, a mother from
Flint went on the news and they said, you know
what happened, and Sheila had lost her son the night before,
and she said, if the leaders came in, if they
were if they cared about jobs, if they cared about
taking the bad people off the streets, my son wouldn't
have been in this position. And that's something that shocks me,
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is that it doesn't seem like this is a I
don't understand why they say that this is the carrying
thing to let these people out. We have these prosecutors
that just let these folks back on the street. Just
last weekend, our one of our county sheriffs was saying,
it really is a handful of people that commit the
most crimes, but we can't get them off the streets
(16:22):
because the prosecutors let them right.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Back on they're right back on.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
You're exactly right, and that nothing infuriates. And that's why
you see law enforcement. The morale is so low. They
know by the time they fail out the paperwork, that
person's already going to be out on the street. And
a lot of these you have zero bail. You know, this,
got to do away with that catch list bail. That
just doesn't work. They're not coming back. That's why you
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saw an angry father on the news yesterday, talked about
a guy that had murdered No tell him what he
did to his beautiful daughter. You know how many convictions?
How many was he sitting on? Twenty nine felonies something
like that. I mean, it's something ridiculous, and it just
goes on and on and on, and it never seems
to stop. And you know, again, twelve percent of the
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population votes.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
You have the leaders and the preachers.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
And all telling you, whooping you up and pointing the
finger and saying it to Rice, when it's just within ma'am,
we have our leadership in all these areas, it's very lacking,
and in these minority communities, especially if they had some
true leadership that cared about their people and not about
staying in power or getting a headline. It would change
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everything peint eighty. But currently we don't see that type
of bravery out there.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
We see a lot of Democrats, and I've seen a
lot of my friends that are Democrats on social media
that have been just wild about the fact that Donald
Trump is overstepping his authority. He's a king. He's walking
into these cities and he's bringing in the military and
he's taking over. But they don't live in these cities,
like you said. Those are the white people who are
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trying to manage it from the outside. They don't deal
with it. Every single day now we see this government shutdown.
I've heard the leftist news saying that this is going
to hurt Donald Trump, because a government shutdown always hurts
the president that's in power. The midterms are coming. Are
these shenanigans being pulled by the Democrats because they know
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their policies on public safety, and their policies on an
open border, and their policies on foreign wars are not
acceptable right now, so they're trying to put the government
shut down in place to hurt the president.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
The best friend the Democrats have right now probably is
a Republican Party because our messaging stinks.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
You know. I put out on Twitter or x the
other day that.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
This exactly what was going on and what was causing
this shutdown, and it had one point five million views.
I am on the four hundred and thirty fifth most
powerful member. I can't imagine what some of our so
called studs would do that people in the media clamor
to interview all the time, if they would just quit
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being such whiny little little kids and start doing their
jobs and message this thing is.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
It is so.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Beautiful politically, because that is in fact the truth. The
Democrats are going to shut this thing down, and they
have shut it down for providing health care for illegals.
And they'll say, no, we're not, no, we're not. Well,
sure they are. They want to reef. They want to
start back all the programs that Donald Trump and Congress
in some regards kicked out or cut out, and they
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want to refund those deep and start them all over again.
And that includes NPR public television. You know, I was
in the NPR hearings. I asked this question because I
heard it on the radio. They said, what is your
definition of propaganda? And they said, leaguering Wood singing God
bless the USA. And I asked ahead of MPR, I said,
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is that your all's position. Oh no, that's not our position,
that's just one of our commentators. I said, no, you can't.
That is your position. That is your position. You cannot
sit here and say that. And you know they want
to restart all the DEI programs. Well, Dee, I just
about got Donald Trump killed because that was we had
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a head of Secret Service. That's a DEI had no
business being in that position. Had people in those positions
protecting Trump.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
That were not that.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
I don't that we're not of the right height even.
I mean, you saw the Patriots and then you saw
some of them when you get shot, they're all dunk
and down. Well, that's not their job. Their job is
to take a bullet for Trump for whoever they're guarding.
I don't care if Obama, I don't care who it is,
but that is their job. I've heard Bongino say it
many times. I think he guarded Hillary Clinton, and I said,
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you know, he would have taken a bullet for that
was his job. He didn't have to agree with her,
but that that was his job. And we've allowed we're
going to allow these programs to start back again, the
funding of a transgender surgery for minors. Things like that
that you're tax don I mean, that's mnemonic. Yet that
is the things that Democrats are and and frankly, the
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national media is not calling it out. I tell you,
when Schumer will come to the tables when he sees
his numbers are too far gone, he knows he's sinking
right now. That's why you see Jefferies kind of in
the background more so than he was, because he sees
this is hurting his own people, and they're going to
get up and they'll the usual cast of characters will
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talk about all this stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
This is killing them. We just need to pull pour
the calls on.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
We need to stick to our guns, stay loyal to
this president, because honestly, and I get so aggravated with Congress,
we get so puffed up. We're in a we're one
flu season away from from losing. The majority of two
or three people don't show up, We're out. We're out.
And the reason is we ran on our own agendas.
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President Trump ran on some pretty strong stuff, the border,
strong economy, in de all this stuff that the that
the conservative base hates I mean, they love Trump because
he did it, but the left hates us for it,
and we ran on all this other different stuff and
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we barely hang on. And that's the reason, because we
should have adopted his agenda.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I did pretty well in my.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
District, and I think I got one point more than
the president. Don't tell him I said that if he
were to ask me. If he were to ask me,
I'd say, you carried me, mister president. But but all
kidding aside, I think we should look at that agenda,
and that should be our agenda.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
America first should be ourgenta.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on
the Tutor Dixon podcast. Well, and I agree with you
on the DEI thing. I think we should be calling
them out. I mean, the Democrats didn't even believe in
their own DEI because if they did, they wouldn't have
hesitated when Joe Biden stepped out of the race to
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say it's got to be Kamala Harris. But you know
that they were all looking every direction but Kamala Harris
because they knew she wasn't qualified. She was never qualified
to be vice president. She was a DEI higher.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yeah, he said it he said, I'm looking for a
black female and his thing. I mean, yeah, And I
was criticized for saying that. I said, maren'tie, you can't
say that stuff, you know, I said, but Biden said it.
Don't accuse me. I'm just repeating what Biden said, what
the president at the time said.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
So, yeah, you know, it's just to me, it's I'm
so sick.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Of everybody being wooses. And you see, the wises are
lising in numbers, and folks like me numbers are going up.
And because I'm sick of it, and I think America
is sick of it.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
And that's why.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Podcasts like yourself yours are so successful right now, because
you're telling the truth and the left as an know
what to do with it. All they've gouide is their
traditional hatred and scaring poor folks. We're going to cut
your medicaid off, We're going to cut all this other
stuff off. And the reality is all we did was
cut illegals off and cut people who are gaming the system.
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And if it turns out a lot of your people
are gaming the system or ripping us off or stealing
from the American taxpayer, yeah, you're going to be ticked off.
But there's no reason in the world, ma'am. And if
somebody is abble and capable should not go out and
do twenty hours a work a week.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, absolutely, I will just want to end on this.
You've also been called the class clown. You are always
making jokes. You're very funny. You don't care about the
fact that people don't like comedy anymore, and it has
benefited you. I mean, I come from the era of
some of the funniest shows on television where they said
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all kinds of inappropriate things, and you just continue that
on because you don't take things too seriously. How do
you do that? Because I love it?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I always say I don't take myself serious, but I
take the job serious. My constituent snow and when they
can't get funding, or they're getting ripped off, or or
some crackhead taking advantage of their family, they know they
can call me in. I'll take care of business, and
they you know it's I've always constituent service has always
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been my thing. When I was I was a state rep.
And I was a state senator, and that was county mayor.
Best job ever had in the world's County mayor.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Ma'am.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
I was on with Rudy Giuliani last time. I said,
you may be America's mayor, but I was Knox County's mayor,
and I told him, I said, you know, that is
the best job you can have, because you got somebody
that needs got emergency workers that were snowed in. I
can send the ploals down and get them out. You know,
I didn't have to have a committee meeting. Washington, DC
(25:53):
is too much about about how this will appeal. You know,
it took me over a year to pass a bill
out of the House to defund the Taliban. We found
out we were sending them forty million dollars a week
a week, forty millions. I had a memo on my desk,
I think from the State Department, who's no friend of
(26:15):
mine and probably no friend of yours, said that we
probably sent them close to over five billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
At the time.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
It was a classified document that was got unclassified and
I got a hold of it, and that's why I
put it out. But the truth is is that you know,
we're not all hungers. Just doesn't get it, neither party,
and they need a wake up call. And I hope
these elections are that wake up call and we give
us the debts that we need. We need more than
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twelve percent of population to vote. We need preachers to
preach the gospel. We need people to get bold. We
need parents to tell their kids what's right and to
start looking over their shoulders. That's one good thing about COVID.
One thing positive came out of COVID, And those little
kids were at home for looking over their shoulders. At
what in the world they were studying? What you know,
(27:05):
the science in the psychology of all this nonsense that
our kids are being forced fit, And then you wonder
why our countries turn out like it is. That's why
it is. We haven't been paying attention, and now we're
paying attention. America as they say, they welcome the Sleeping Giant. Yep.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yeah. And we just said last week we were talking
to a group up in the up and said we
got to get our sportsmen out. If you're a hunter,
go out and vote. There are certain demographics that don't
like to go out and vote, but your rights are
being taken away, so get out there and do it.
But I appreciate everything that you do every single day.
Congressman Tim Burchett. Thank you so much for coming on today.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Thank you, Mariam. You have the coolest name in American politics.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Thank you. I appreciate that. I'll tell my mom. She'll
be thrilled. People all the time. They're like, that's a
fake name. I'm like, my mom would beg to differ.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Where did she come up with that?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
You know? She said she she came up with you know,
like all these regular names like Kristen and Susan, and
my dad was like, oh no, I dated one of those.
I can't have one of those. And finally she was like,
she was a big English history nut, so she decided
to go with Tutor.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Mama named me Timothy because he was Paul's buddy in
the Bible.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
So that's how I got Timothy.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
That's beautiful. Nothing better. Thank you so much, Thank you, ma'am,
and thank you all for listening to the Tutor Dixon Podcast.
Remember you can get it on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or you can watch it on Rumbling YouTube at Tutor
Dixon and join us next time. Have a blessed day.
Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Today we have Congressman
Tim Burchett with us. He is from Tennessee, but you
are in Washington, d C. Right now handling this government shutdown.
I just want to say we're recording this on Wednesday,
and anything had happened. But tell us the behind the
scenes right now, if you don't mind.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Well, I think there's a lot of things going on.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I think what part of it really nobody's addressed is.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
The it's Schumer is looking in his rear view mirror.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
He is looking at Alexandra a Casio Corte or a
Zye call her Cortez. She is probably chomping at the
bit to run for US Senate. Schumer knows that he
has been left by me. He's a liberal, but this don't.
(00:51):
I don't know that he's approached approached the Marxist level yet.
And I think he sees New York going completely calm,
this Marxist for this, this lunatic they're getting ready to elect,
and he knows that his base, he's got to have
that base, so he's going to throw everything at this.
(01:12):
You know, the transgender surgery, the the health care for illegals,
and that's what he's looking at. He doesn't care about
the country, and Jefferies is just a it's just along
for the ride because the House is already We've already
passed the bill.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
It's in the Senate, and it's clearly you.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Know, the the Democrats are, you know, all in DC.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I wanted to correct you.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I'm sorry, I'm in I'm in Knoxville today, actually so,
and we're not. There's no reason for us to be
there because there's nothing going on. The House has already
done it's business. It's up to the Senate now. And
I think that's what Schumer is doing. That's his ultimate plan,
is to appease his far liberal base. He could care
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less about the country. He needs to go back to
flip and raw hamburgers with cheese on him on his grill.
And you know, I think he needs to go play
with his grandkids if he has any, and get on
with his life because this thing is clearly passed him
by the country. It's not buying this one bit. They
know this is about providing health care for illegals.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
You make an interesting point, though he is at the
high end of the age range in his party. This
seems to be a trend in their party to have
people well into their eighties and sometimes into their nineties.
I think that they have held off the younger generation,
the generation of forty to fifty year olds, and now
they have the twenty and thirty year olds coming in
(02:43):
that are the far progressive left. They wouldn't give a
power when they could to the next generation. Now they're
afraid of what this communist power is. But they're going
to the far farther to the left. It's shocking to me.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Well, it's just it's I think it's as a leadership.
You see it in all parties. It's about preserving their leadership.
It's an arrogance that thinks that they're not going to
be able to, you know, to succeed without them. I
can remember one time here in Knox County when they
put in turn limits and they were interviewing some of
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the county courthouse folks, and one of them got on
the news and said, I just don't know if this
county is going to be able to function without us.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
And I thought it was a joke.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
You know, I had to check my calendar make sure
what in April first, But honest to goodness, they were
serious and that's the mentality of this. But you get
that because you've got you've got these staffers that walk
around and you know, I don't know, they might heat
the commode seat before you go into the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I mean, it's ridiculous how these leadership They've got their posse,
they got their suburbans, they got security four deep, they're
never waiting in line anywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
How much of an effect do you think they've had
on the younger generation because we talked to Attorney Point
Group in Northern Michigan just a few weeks ago, and
those young people were saying, we're kind of in this
in between where part of our generation is saying we
don't want big government, and part of our generation is saying, well,
what is the government going to do for us? And
(04:13):
I asked them, what are you expecting from government? Why
do you feel like you are owed something by the government.
The government should be there to provide public safety and infrastructure,
but what else are you wanting from them? They have
gotten to the point, the Democrats have gotten to the
point where they've convinced young people that Democrat that the
government is is essential to their life and should provide
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them financial relief.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I agree. I think the government was designed to be maybe.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
An ambulance carrier, and it's become a transit system and
that's you know, it's just we've allowed that to happen.
More and more taxes, more and more regularition just kind
of ease into us. We have higher property, property taxes,
higher sales tax, user phase going down the list, and
it's and then you had income tax and all the
egregious things that brings on. So yeah, we've allowed it,
(05:05):
is what we've done. We got to quit when you
have twelve percent of the population in k Street lobbyist
running the show.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
It's true. We've seen it in Michigan right now, there's this,
I mean, we have the Michigan government is shutdown as well.
We have this battle over whether or not we're going
to pay for everybody's school lunch. It's such a bizarre
battle because it's very hard for the Republicans to come
out and say, well, why should we subsidize the wealthy,
But essentially free and reduced lunch is always going to
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be there for the people that need it. This is
now giving free lunch to the wealthy families, And it's
a really hard it's a really hard semantics argument to
have with the people of Michigan to say, why do
you want to pay more taxes to pay for people
who can afford their kids to have lunch to pay
for their lunch?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Well, that's that don't want to make anybody feel uncomfortable
kind of bs. When I was a kid, I'm sixty
one years old and I can remember the kids that
we're on the free and reduced line unch.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Nobody knew it.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I was, I guess, just a tenant, and the teacher
would give them a little slug that they would use
for their lunch, and.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Then they would know.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
The captier workers would know that they just because they
could see them, you know. And we didn't pay attention.
Just they just handed them a coin, is all it was.
And just like we were handing them a coin. And
nobody was made fun of, nobody was pointed the finger at.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It was just part of it.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
And now, yeah, there's there's areas in mind District where
the people are a lot of wealthy folks and a
lot of poor folks in combined, and then they just
give everybody a free and reduce lunch and it's a
one size fits all. I think that's that is why
Donald J. Trump wants to get out of the education business.
One of the reasons has just become such a bureaucracy.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
We when Jimmy Carter moved the Department of Educing up
to Education up to a cabinet level position in nineteen
seventy six, we were number one in the world. Now,
trillions of dollars later, we're in the twenty if we're
lucky in some categories.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
So it is.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
You see miss Winingarten on their ranting and raving for
her teachers' union, and now we find out they've spending
well over one hundred.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Thousand dollars promoting her book. Their union dues.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Right, which is essentially our money that is being paid
to teachers, and then they're stripping it off of their paycheck.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Exactly, exactly, And the only reason most teachers are in
there is for insurance, if you talk to them. In reality,
my mam always a classroom teacher, my sister was. I
have a degree in education, certified K through twelve in Tennessee,
so I get that, and they make a push for it.
When I was in college and I made those points
to her, to our director and the director of I
(07:49):
forget the title of education, but you know, and all
the philosophy of education classes I had to take in,
all the garbage that they need to teach how to
and a very few teacher classes you how to actually
teach school, and until they throw you in the deep
end when you'd hear student teaching, and then you wonder
why you had such a large burnout right in education.
(08:10):
And then these poor teachers would just run over by
these union bosses, and it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Well, now we're suffering with DEI. We see that at
our university level. You've seen that in Tennessee. There have
been some undercover videos that have come out. Even though
the president said no more DEI, it's still happening.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
That's right, they just rename it.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
And the problem we have is and follow me on this,
and I've made this a point when we are our
great Senator Marshall Blackbird raised ruckus and had one of
them kicked out, I believe at MTSU. But the problem
is it's like Kudzu. I don't know if you're from
the South or not. You're you're a parent to Michigan.
Aren't you in the cold country. But kudzu as a plant,
(08:52):
it's an invasive species, and it just grows everywhere on
the hillside.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
They say, you've got to close.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Your window is at night, it'll crawl land and snatch
your kids back in the old days. But anyway, it
grows everywhere up here, and this is all over and
you and you cut it down, and they got all
these new plans. They'll bring in goats. Oh, goats will
do it. And I don't know they nap all it.
I'm not sure they use all these chemicals. But guess what,
it always comes back in five or six different places.
(09:19):
And that's what our colleges and universities are. We we
fire these people. Well, what we've got to do is
fire the people that are doing the hiring, these these
departments that allow this kind of thing, because it's going
to come back bigger and better and stronger under these
liberal policies in the future. And that and we should
and these legislators, I mean, you know, they get schmooths.
(09:41):
They get invited to the skyboxes all over the country,
you know, to be the football games and and and
the and the heavy hitters paddle on the back and
tell them how great they are, and then they just
keep funding this garbage. And then here we are at
University of Tennessee and noxletony with somebody with a lesbian
studies degree.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
That's trashy, Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
You know, after he's dead and from what we've understood,
you know, I just and what does that prepare somebody
to do in life?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
No, I'm go down and work down at the coffee shop.
I guess you know. We need to teach people. We
need to get back to education.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
We need to teach people how to how to read,
write and do arithmetic. But if we're going to teach
them a trade, teach him a trade. Go to the
trade school. There's this beautiful minorgree. It's technological adult education.
If you're going to teach them to be a lawyer,
cinema law school. If you're going to be a doctor,
put them on that track ourly, medical chemistry, those kind
of things, and you know, and go down those lines.
(10:40):
If they're going to be an electrician, I'll teach them
how to do electric how to do it. But all
the other stuff, it's nonsense. It's just fluff, and it
drains the tax base, and that's where these liberal policies
come in.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on
the Tutor Dixon Podcast. So I went to college in
the nineties and I don't remember having any type of
politics on college campuses. I do remember Bill Clinton coming
to my college campus, but it wasn't as though people
were completely absorbed by it. I think it was mostly
(11:15):
because of social media. But you make such a great
point about the Charlie Kirk situation. We went to, like
I said, we went to Northern Michigan University last weekend.
We sat down with the Turning Point kids. There. The
kid who is the young man who has organized the
Turning Point group, he said he put out his table
on campus to recruit more people. There were students coming
(11:37):
by yelling your fascists, you're horrible. But the worst part
is an actual professor came up and poured his coffee
on the kid.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Think about that, Well, they need to be unemployed, but
that's tenure for you. Yeah, he probably checked his union
rules before he did that, and it was probably specifically alliwed.
But what we've got to get control of public education.
We got to defund it, and we got to quit
sending money places like Harvard that have multi billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Bank rolls they're sitting on and we just got to
get away from it.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
We've we've recruited people from overseas to come into our
China specifically, and we all the liberals tell us, oh,
this is great, we'll teach them the American way of life. Well,
in fact, now they're infecting our way of life, not
all of them, but some of them with communists propaganda
and they infiltrate in their long term and communists have
a long term plan. Americans. You know, we want our
(12:34):
pizzas in about thirty minutes. And that's about our Dadgoma
ticchet Span.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Let me ask you about crime. Because you have the
city of Memphis in your state. We have the city
of Detroit. We are constantly in a competition as to
who is the most violent city in America. Donald Trump
has said he wants to come into Memphis. He's sending
the National Guard. Your governor is on board with that,
Ovenor is obviously in Michigan, not on board with getting
(13:02):
the National Guard into the city of Detroit. What do
you see as the possibilities there to improve the city
of Memphis.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I think that it's a it's a great opportunity for Tennessee.
I worry that we're sending these troops in that may
be possibly unarmed. I think that's a bad idea that's
going to get somebody killed. I think you would watched that.
When I was in the state legislature, we lived at
unarmed traffic people and things in certain areas, and we
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most of the time voted against it because obviously there's
a major crime and you look like law enforcement. Somebody
runs up to you and said I need your help. Well,
you know you can do is write them a ticket
or a radio at them or something. So I think
we better, we better do it right. But you're right, Memphis,
Tennessee has a higher death toll than Mexico City.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
So yeah, it is horrible.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
And it's when I'm on Nash Knows CNN, they always
point that out.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Oh, red state Tennessee has Memphis.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I said, yeah, but it's been run by a Democrat
machine for longer than I live. He used to be
the Crump machine, and then the Ford family r ain't
it and now it's just who knows who's running it.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
But it's it's an awful scenario right now.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
And what you see is the best people in the
world are held hostage by some of the worst people
in the world. When we had the mayor of Washington,
d C. And all their people in in our oversight committee,
I'll never forget it. It was five white guys up front,
and all the black folks were sitting in the back
of the community activists and they were just shaking their
head the whole time.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
And I said, and I brought that. I brought that up.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I said, I see five white guys up here, but
I don't see anybody representing the community.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I said, I'm.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Pretty sure there's a pretty large black population in DC,
you know. And after I walked out, one of the
more prominent black Democrats Congress thank me. He said, Tim,
that needed to be said. And I said, and I'm
glad you said it. And I said, thank you. And
I get it. It's just there's a sense of denial,
there's a sense of ownership, and there's an arrogance, and
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people are dying because of the people that can't speak,
aren't able to speak. The people that are in power,
the preachers and the shady politicians, they're all going to
get up front of the mic and holler about racism
or whatever, but there's little There's mamas out there that
are crying every night because her babies are getting killed
and there's no reason for that, and we can stop it,
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and it needs to be stopped.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
We see the same thing in Michigan we have not
too long ago. A few years ago, a mother from
Flint went on the news and they said, you know
what happened, and Sheila had lost her son the night before,
and she said, if the leaders came in, if they
were if they cared about jobs, if they cared about
taking the bad people off the streets, my son wouldn't
have been in this position. And that's something that shocks me,
(16:01):
is that it doesn't seem like this is a I
don't understand why they say that this is the carrying
thing to let these people out. We have these prosecutors
that just let these folks back on the street. Just
last weekend, our one of our county sheriffs was saying,
it really is a handful of people that commit the
most crimes, but we can't get them off the streets
(16:22):
because the prosecutors let them right.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Back on they're right back on.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
You're exactly right, and that nothing infuriates. And that's why
you see law enforcement. The morale is so low. They
know by the time they fail out the paperwork, that
person's already going to be out on the street. And
a lot of these you have zero bail. You know, this,
got to do away with that catch list bail. That
just doesn't work. They're not coming back. That's why you
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saw an angry father on the news yesterday, talked about
a guy that had murdered No tell him what he
did to his beautiful daughter. You know how many convictions?
How many was he sitting on? Twenty nine felonies something
like that. I mean, it's something ridiculous, and it just
goes on and on and on, and it never seems
to stop. And you know, again, twelve percent of the
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population votes.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
You have the leaders and the preachers.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
And all telling you, whooping you up and pointing the
finger and saying it to Rice, when it's just within ma'am,
we have our leadership in all these areas, it's very lacking,
and in these minority communities, especially if they had some
true leadership that cared about their people and not about
staying in power or getting a headline. It would change
(17:35):
everything peint eighty. But currently we don't see that type
of bravery out there.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
We see a lot of Democrats, and I've seen a
lot of my friends that are Democrats on social media
that have been just wild about the fact that Donald
Trump is overstepping his authority. He's a king. He's walking
into these cities and he's bringing in the military and
he's taking over. But they don't live in these cities,
like you said. Those are the white people who are
(18:03):
trying to manage it from the outside. They don't deal
with it. Every single day now we see this government shutdown.
I've heard the leftist news saying that this is going
to hurt Donald Trump, because a government shutdown always hurts
the president that's in power. The midterms are coming. Are
these shenanigans being pulled by the Democrats because they know
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their policies on public safety, and their policies on an
open border, and their policies on foreign wars are not
acceptable right now, so they're trying to put the government
shut down in place to hurt the president.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
The best friend the Democrats have right now probably is
a Republican Party because our messaging stinks.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
You know. I put out on Twitter or x the
other day that.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
This exactly what was going on and what was causing
this shutdown, and it had one point five million views.
I am on the four hundred and thirty fifth most
powerful member. I can't imagine what some of our so
called studs would do that people in the media clamor
to interview all the time, if they would just quit
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being such whiny little little kids and start doing their
jobs and message this thing is.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
It is so.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Beautiful politically, because that is in fact the truth. The
Democrats are going to shut this thing down, and they
have shut it down for providing health care for illegals.
And they'll say, no, we're not, no, we're not. Well,
sure they are. They want to reef. They want to
start back all the programs that Donald Trump and Congress
in some regards kicked out or cut out, and they
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want to refund those deep and start them all over again.
And that includes NPR public television. You know, I was
in the NPR hearings. I asked this question because I
heard it on the radio. They said, what is your
definition of propaganda? And they said, leaguering Wood singing God
bless the USA. And I asked ahead of MPR, I said,
(20:01):
is that your all's position. Oh no, that's not our position,
that's just one of our commentators. I said, no, you can't.
That is your position. That is your position. You cannot
sit here and say that. And you know they want
to restart all the DEI programs. Well, Dee, I just
about got Donald Trump killed because that was we had
(20:22):
a head of Secret Service. That's a DEI had no
business being in that position. Had people in those positions
protecting Trump.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
That were not that.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
I don't that we're not of the right height even.
I mean, you saw the Patriots and then you saw
some of them when you get shot, they're all dunk
and down. Well, that's not their job. Their job is
to take a bullet for Trump for whoever they're guarding.
I don't care if Obama, I don't care who it is,
but that is their job. I've heard Bongino say it
many times. I think he guarded Hillary Clinton, and I said,
(20:55):
you know, he would have taken a bullet for that
was his job. He didn't have to agree with her,
but that that was his job. And we've allowed we're
going to allow these programs to start back again, the
funding of a transgender surgery for minors. Things like that
that you're tax don I mean, that's mnemonic. Yet that
is the things that Democrats are and and frankly, the
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national media is not calling it out. I tell you,
when Schumer will come to the tables when he sees
his numbers are too far gone, he knows he's sinking
right now. That's why you see Jefferies kind of in
the background more so than he was, because he sees
this is hurting his own people, and they're going to
get up and they'll the usual cast of characters will
(21:38):
talk about all this stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
This is killing them. We just need to pull pour
the calls on.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
We need to stick to our guns, stay loyal to
this president, because honestly, and I get so aggravated with Congress,
we get so puffed up. We're in a we're one
flu season away from from losing. The majority of two
or three people don't show up, We're out. We're out.
And the reason is we ran on our own agendas.
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President Trump ran on some pretty strong stuff, the border,
strong economy, in de all this stuff that the that
the conservative base hates I mean, they love Trump because
he did it, but the left hates us for it,
and we ran on all this other different stuff and
(22:23):
we barely hang on. And that's the reason, because we
should have adopted his agenda.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I did pretty well in my.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
District, and I think I got one point more than
the president. Don't tell him I said that if he
were to ask me. If he were to ask me,
I'd say, you carried me, mister president. But but all
kidding aside, I think we should look at that agenda,
and that should be our agenda.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
America first should be ourgenta.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on
the Tutor Dixon podcast. Well, and I agree with you
on the DEI thing. I think we should be calling
them out. I mean, the Democrats didn't even believe in
their own DEI because if they did, they wouldn't have
hesitated when Joe Biden stepped out of the race to
(23:07):
say it's got to be Kamala Harris. But you know
that they were all looking every direction but Kamala Harris
because they knew she wasn't qualified. She was never qualified
to be vice president. She was a DEI higher.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yeah, he said it he said, I'm looking for a
black female and his thing. I mean, yeah, And I
was criticized for saying that. I said, maren'tie, you can't
say that stuff, you know, I said, but Biden said it.
Don't accuse me. I'm just repeating what Biden said, what
the president at the time said.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
So, yeah, you know, it's just to me, it's I'm
so sick.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Of everybody being wooses. And you see, the wises are
lising in numbers, and folks like me numbers are going up.
And because I'm sick of it, and I think America
is sick of it.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
And that's why.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Podcasts like yourself yours are so successful right now, because
you're telling the truth and the left as an know
what to do with it. All they've gouide is their
traditional hatred and scaring poor folks. We're going to cut
your medicaid off, We're going to cut all this other
stuff off. And the reality is all we did was
cut illegals off and cut people who are gaming the system.
(24:15):
And if it turns out a lot of your people
are gaming the system or ripping us off or stealing
from the American taxpayer, yeah, you're going to be ticked off.
But there's no reason in the world, ma'am. And if
somebody is abble and capable should not go out and
do twenty hours a work a week.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, absolutely, I will just want to end on this.
You've also been called the class clown. You are always
making jokes. You're very funny. You don't care about the
fact that people don't like comedy anymore, and it has
benefited you. I mean, I come from the era of
some of the funniest shows on television where they said
(24:51):
all kinds of inappropriate things, and you just continue that
on because you don't take things too seriously. How do
you do that? Because I love it?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I always say I don't take myself serious, but I
take the job serious. My constituent snow and when they
can't get funding, or they're getting ripped off, or or
some crackhead taking advantage of their family, they know they
can call me in. I'll take care of business, and
they you know it's I've always constituent service has always
(25:24):
been my thing. When I was I was a state rep.
And I was a state senator, and that was county mayor.
Best job ever had in the world's County mayor.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Ma'am.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
I was on with Rudy Giuliani last time. I said,
you may be America's mayor, but I was Knox County's mayor,
and I told him, I said, you know, that is
the best job you can have, because you got somebody
that needs got emergency workers that were snowed in. I
can send the ploals down and get them out. You know,
I didn't have to have a committee meeting. Washington, DC
(25:53):
is too much about about how this will appeal. You know,
it took me over a year to pass a bill
out of the House to defund the Taliban. We found
out we were sending them forty million dollars a week
a week, forty millions. I had a memo on my desk,
I think from the State Department, who's no friend of
(26:15):
mine and probably no friend of yours, said that we
probably sent them close to over five billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
At the time.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
It was a classified document that was got unclassified and
I got a hold of it, and that's why I
put it out. But the truth is is that you know,
we're not all hungers. Just doesn't get it, neither party,
and they need a wake up call. And I hope
these elections are that wake up call and we give
us the debts that we need. We need more than
(26:42):
twelve percent of population to vote. We need preachers to
preach the gospel. We need people to get bold. We
need parents to tell their kids what's right and to
start looking over their shoulders. That's one good thing about COVID.
One thing positive came out of COVID, And those little
kids were at home for looking over their shoulders. At
what in the world they were studying? What you know,
(27:05):
the science in the psychology of all this nonsense that
our kids are being forced fit, And then you wonder
why our countries turn out like it is. That's why
it is. We haven't been paying attention, and now we're
paying attention. America as they say, they welcome the Sleeping Giant. Yep.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yeah. And we just said last week we were talking
to a group up in the up and said we
got to get our sportsmen out. If you're a hunter,
go out and vote. There are certain demographics that don't
like to go out and vote, but your rights are
being taken away, so get out there and do it.
But I appreciate everything that you do every single day.
Congressman Tim Burchett. Thank you so much for coming on today.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Thank you, Mariam. You have the coolest name in American politics.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Thank you. I appreciate that. I'll tell my mom. She'll
be thrilled. People all the time. They're like, that's a
fake name. I'm like, my mom would beg to differ.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Where did she come up with that?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
You know? She said she she came up with you know,
like all these regular names like Kristen and Susan, and
my dad was like, oh no, I dated one of those.
I can't have one of those. And finally she was like,
she was a big English history nut, so she decided
to go with Tutor.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Mama named me Timothy because he was Paul's buddy in
the Bible.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
So that's how I got Timothy.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
That's beautiful. Nothing better. Thank you so much, Thank you, ma'am,
and thank you all for listening to the Tutor Dixon Podcast.
Remember you can get it on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or you can watch it on Rumbling YouTube at Tutor
Dixon and join us next time. Have a blessed day.
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