Tim Burchett Predicts We May See Some Lawmakers 'In Handcuffs' Due To DOGE Findings

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On "Forbes Newsroom," Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) predicted we'd possibly see lawmakers in "handcuffs" over Elon Musk's DOGE findings.

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00:00I feel really lucky in my role. I get to talk to people like you, members of Congress from both sides of the aisle,

00:06and I've asked their perspective on Elon Musk, and the answers I've gotten have ranged from everything from,

00:11he's a genius, he's great outside perspective, he's recklessly cutting, he's really the shadow president.

00:18Where do you fall? What do you make of Elon Musk?

00:21I think he's a good advisor. He's got nothing to gain and everything to lose from this.

00:27I like him. I asked him personally. I said, look, you know, here's the deal.

00:32I told him I'm a Christian. I'm not a very good one. I know what my drive is for, you know, my wife and daughter.

00:39I said, where are you doing this? And it was a very unique, I guess you could say, response.

00:49And he said, I said, honestly, Tim, I just saw the corruption and people doing without.

00:57And he, you know, he said, he thought about his kids.

01:00And of course, he has a heck of a lot of kids and where this country was going for them.

01:06And he wanted to change the course of it. And I think he's done it.

01:10I think the people that are squealing the loudest, though, are the ones that are,

01:15you're probably going to see some people in Washington and possibly some people in Congress

01:19in handcuffs over some of this stuff because of the money and the graft.

01:24And they think they're slick and that's not they can't.

01:27There's no paper trail, but there's a trail. There's a trail for every dollar.

01:31And and Elon Musk has got a team together, and that's why they're squealing the most,

01:36because you'd think they'd want to get rid of the waste and abuse so that they could free up the money

01:42to give to those people that are deserving of it, not the other way around.

01:46And unfortunately, that's what they're doing.

01:49Who do you think are some of these people that are going to get in legal trouble?

01:53Are they people we know? Are they lawmakers or are they more people who work in private industries?

01:58I mean, what does that look like?

02:00Now, I think you're going to see some bureaucrats get in trouble,

02:03but I think you're ultimately going to see some lawmakers because their families, you know,

02:11the way they set up these NGOs is you get a rich person to put in a million dollars in something,

02:17and then it has some great name.

02:20And then some bureaucrat, unelected bureaucrat, puts maybe a billion dollars in their fund

02:27and of our tax dollars, and then it flows in a circuitous route back to Washington

02:37to those same politicians, to their campaigns, and possibly just straight to their back pocket

02:42if they have a family member that works there.

02:45Congressman, I obviously have to ask, do you have any names off the top of your head

02:50of those types of people, of those lawmakers?

02:53I'm having my suspicions, and it could possibly be in both parties,

02:57but I'll leave it, I'll let that to the elected, I'll let that to law enforcement.

03:02Well, if that ever pans out, I'm definitely having you back on.

03:05I always want to have you on.

Tim Burchett Predicts We May See Some Lawmakers 'In Handcuffs' Due To DOGE Findings

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