Burchett Blows Whistle on GOP ‘Neocons’ Sabotaging Trump From Inside Congress

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) is sounding the alarm on what he says is a far more dangerous obstacle to President Donald J. Trump’s agenda than Democrats: entrenched, self-serving actors inside the Republican Party itself.

In a fiery interview with conservative commentator Benny Johnson, Burchett accused establishment Republicans, congressional staffers, and lobbyist-connected insiders of deliberately sabotaging President Trump’s America First priorities from within. According to Burchett, this internal rot threatens not only Trump’s legislative agenda but the GOP’s credibility with voters who sent Republicans to Washington to deliver results.

“It’s a structural problem, Benny,” Burchett said. “I think you’ve got staffers in key spots that are crooked. I think they’re in bed, literally or figuratively, with lobbyists, and they kill very good pieces of legislation.”

Burchett argued that these unelected operatives routinely derail bills aligned with President Trump’s populist platform by burying them in endless procedural delays.

“That’s why you see study committees say they’re going to study this bill for a year, and then it magically goes away,” he continued. “I think that’s part of the design because they want to undermine Trump. Ultimately, they hate him because he is cutting off their money.”

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The Tennessee congressman painted a picture of a deeply compromised system in which lobbyists, staffers, and career politicians work together to protect their own financial and political interests at the expense of voters.

“You’ve got a great piece of legislation. It’s not going anywhere. You go to the committee and say, ‘What’s going on?’ The chairman says, ‘Well, talk to this staffer, it’s under their purview,’” Burchett explained. “You go in this office, and generally some of them are pretty arrogant. It’s kind of scary—an unelected bureaucrat sitting back there, no name, no face, nobody knows who they are except in this little world we live in.”

Burchett said Washington’s lobbying culture has corrupted many staffers long before they ever hold elected office.

“They’ve got the ear of a lobbyist, a paid lobbyist who’s probably taken them out for drinks, steak dinner, maybe they went on a CODEL, you know, to some fancy place—Qatar, or ‘Cutter,’ or maybe Myrtle Beach,” he said. “So the lobbyist has got their ear. Something shady’s going on there.”

According to Burchett, this influence is weaponized to quietly kill Trump-aligned legislation without leaving fingerprints.

“They come to them and say, ‘Hey, man, we can’t have this bill—it’s going to kill us,’” Burchett said. “So what do they do? The staff says, ‘Well, let’s study this bill for a year, and then come back with a report.’ And you know as good as I do, Congress—our attention span is 30 minutes or less. We’ve moved on to another bright shiny object, some other calamity in the press, passing legislation that will absolutely do nothing for us.”

Burchett also blasted Republican leadership culture, suggesting that personal ambition has overtaken party unity and effective governance.

“You’ve got speakers and people in leadership, and people are undermining them,” he said. “Most members of Congress think they’re going to be the next speaker or want to be the next speaker. So, in their mind, they don’t want this speaker to succeed—they want to undermine them at whatever level they can.”

He argued the GOP will remain trapped in dysfunction until leadership is handed to someone uninterested in climbing the political ladder.

“You’ve got to have somebody that is not running for re-election that wants to be the dadgum speaker and would just come in and just clean this trash can out, or it will never change,” Burchett said.

Burchett warned that internal Republican sabotage ultimately empowers the Left and endangers the country.

“They’ll do the same thing under the Democrats, except with their Marxist agenda, we could lose everything,” he said. “It’s very short-sighted. I think people want this speaker to fail so that they can run the minority party for four years or whatever, and then take back the majority, and then they will be the speaker, and they will do what’s right.”

For Burchett, the message is clear: unless Republicans confront corruption and ambition within their own ranks, President Trump’s mandate—and the will of the voters—will continue to be undermined from the inside.