Tim Burchett

Burchett frames the issue as a budget question about what the government is spending tens of millions on.

“It's not about Little Green Man. It's not about flying saucers. It's what are we spending this money on if they say they don't exist?”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2495 - Tim Burchett (May 7, 2026) · Listen from 2:21:13

Burchett rejects the rationale that disclosure would harm society, saying the public should decide.

“I don't doubt what he's saying. I know all those guys”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2495 - Tim Burchett (May 7, 2026) · Listen from 2:25:44

Burchett says a federal employee told him the president is on a need-to-know basis regarding UFO information.

“he said, the president's on a need-to-know basis. Now, that's a federal employee saying that he or she has— information that the president is not allowed to see”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2495 - Tim Burchett (May 7, 2026) · Listen from 2:23:41

Burchett suggests disappearances of scientists around the time of disclosure efforts serve as warnings to others, likening it to roughing up busboys.

“you rough up a few of the busboys, and that sends a quick dadgum message that you need to shut your mouth”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2495 - Tim Burchett (May 7, 2026) · Listen from 18:38

Burchett believes recovered UFO material was given to major defense contractors that are beyond the reach of FOIA.

“I think that whatever they had, they gave to them early on, and they're the ones. But they're so far disconnected from the government that I can't touch it”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2495 - Tim Burchett (May 7, 2026) · Listen from 20:51

Burchett says he was told of underwater craft moving over 200 mph and as large as a football field, far beyond U.S. capabilities.

“we've seen craft underwater that do something over 200 miles an hour that are on the sonar pickup or as big as a dadgum football field”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2495 - Tim Burchett (May 7, 2026) · Listen from 12:55

Burchett predicts stock-trading reform will stall in the Senate while members claim credit for trying.

“We'll pass some bill and the Senate will pass another bill or phone just won't take it up, which is we're seeing a lot of now”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2495 - Tim Burchett (May 7, 2026) · Listen from 52:20

Burchett says members of Congress held stock in missile defense makers that benefited when Ukraine aid required replenishing U.S. systems.

“Now, who do you think owns stock in those missile defense systems? Members of Congress”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2495 - Tim Burchett (May 7, 2026) · Listen from 48:33

Burchett says he cashed out his portfolio into a mutual fund and backs legislation barring members from owning individual stocks.

“I don't own any individual stocks, but I think that members of Congress ought to do that. That was my bill”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2495 - Tim Burchett (May 7, 2026) · Listen from 45:36

Burchett says his bill would require reporting on cash assistance in Afghanistan and cut off funding reaching the Taliban.

“this bill makes them report it and follow the money so we know where it's going. And if it's going to the Taliban, it's out”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2495 - Tim Burchett (May 7, 2026) · Listen from 1:45:53

Burchett says a source told him the Taliban receives about $40 million a week, largely via cash and NGOs.

“he comes into the office and he has to, he can't use his real name and, uh, and says, look, they're getting $40 million a week”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2495 - Tim Burchett (May 7, 2026) · Listen from 1:41:04

Burchett calls fuel pricing a racket, questioning how already-refined gasoline rises overnight while the U.S. imports no Iranian oil.

“we get zero oil from iran zero we we export oil right now and yet the price is going through the roof”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2495 - Tim Burchett (May 7, 2026) · Listen from 1:30:56

Burchett says he would withdraw the United States from the UN.

“If it was up to me, I'd pull out of the dadgum U.N. They are nothing. All they do is get Americans killed”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2495 - Tim Burchett (May 7, 2026) · Listen from 1:46:50

Burchett believes the accused correspondents' dinner shooter had been programmed, in the manner of MKUltra.

“The guy's been programmed to do this. He immediately turns from one way to the other overnight almost”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2495 - Tim Burchett (May 7, 2026) · Listen from 1:10:59