Posted on 03/08/2025 4:52:00 PM PST by Kazan
Republican Rep. Tim Burchett has urged President Donald Trump not to let the money being saved by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to be spent by “war pimps at the Pentagon.”
Rep. Burchett shared his concerns with the president during a recent meeting.
“I said, Mr. President, my biggest fear is this, you’re making all these great cuts with DOGE, and every dollar is going to be absorbed by the war pimps at the Pentagon and the war pimps in Congress,” the congressman told Breitbart News.
Burchett continued, “And I said, your problem is not going to come from the Marxist on the left of the Democrats. I said it’s going to come from the Republicans. And I said, you got about 100, 150 days before this bunch turns on you. They’re going to start making — they’re going to start cutting edges, the same people that did it before, that same machine.”
The congressman said, “It’s not a swamp, it’s a sewer. And I call them war pimps.”
According to Burchett, Rep. Cory Mills also joined in sharing these concerns.
“And immediately the conversation turned to that. And my buddy, Cory Mills, military guy, he can — he’s much more eloquent than I am, and he started describing how it’s going to go. And you know, it just went from there.”
“That’s my concern, because all this money we’re saving from DOGE is just, you got to remember, the Pentagon has never, ever passed an audit,” he said, explaining that the people there are “so arrogant.”
“They cannot account for over a half a trillion dollars. That is an aircraft carrier that they cannot account for. … I just made that case. I’m all for the military,” Burchett said.
The America First congressman said “it’s a new chapter in America.”
“And we really got one shot at this thing. Don’t kid yourself, if Trump cannot pull this off, the next one will run us further off that cliff,” he added.
Mr. President, Rep Burchett is a clever and honest man. Possibly worth listening to.
Did Ozzy write that?
I have to agree with the sentiment.
Burchett was our Congress Critter until last year when we moved one town to the west. Now ours is useless. Fleischman.
Burchett is an American giant. Dagnabbit.;-)
The other day he was with Jamie Raskin when a reporter approached him. Burchett told the reporter, “Watch out for him. He’ll steal your soul.” Raskin laughed.
Since the US is becoming a Russian aligned state I oppose all defense spending. Its all going to Satan as it is.
lol
We are all for a strong military here at FR..I can’t imagine someone who wasn’t would last very long :)
But that doesn’t mean shoveling money into the pentagon and hoping it goes to good use!
A bunch of it’s not....maybe not even a bunch but some or more than some.
And it’s gotta stop.
Every part of our government is acting like it has carte blanche to spend and waste...it doesn’t.
and Trump and Doge and his wonderboys are taking care of business.
True patriots.
“””Mr. President, Rep Burchett is a clever and honest man. Possibly worth listening to.””””
It was hilarious a few months ago when he told the cnn guy that more people watch reruns of Sponge Bob than cnn.
No, Ozzy wrote War Pigs.
War Pimps.
Here at Free Republic, we just call ‘em Zeepers.
The Pentagon has failed seven straight audits. It's become a money laundering mechanism for our corrupt political class.
It’s past time Spain and the EU countries started paying for their own protection.
HOORAY Tim Burchett!
I hope that Elon Musk is starting to spend more time on preparing the Republicans in Congress for Primary Season in 8-18 months from now. The same needs to happen on the Dems side to help separate the extremists who follow the Hausführer Hakeem of the Nationalsozialisten so blindly in all his deceitfulness.
Rep. Burchett has long been one of my favorite members of Congress.
He can't even get you a discount on margarine? That IS useless.
“Since the US is becoming a Russian aligned state I oppose all defense spending. Its all going to Satan as it is.”
You being a foreign weirdo, you have no say in our policy, and we don’t want your sneering comments here either.
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