The Senate came back with a bill that added about $1 trillion more to the deficit than the House version Burchett had reluctantly voted for. He went to the White House, got a signed souvenir, and voted for it the next day.
He says Congress can't fix school shootings — 'if you want to legislate evil, it's just not going to happen.' Three years later he wrote a bill to keep federal agencies and federal money away from license-plate cameras, because some threats apparently can be legislated.
He said it on a Republican Study Committee golf podcast during Masters Week. He sits on the House Oversight Committee's DOGE subcommittee — a panel its own chairwoman said was built to work 'hand in hand' with DOGE, and he cheered right along.
A former prosecutor called January 6 'the very definition of domestic terrorism' and demanded a thorough investigation. Five roll calls later, he had voted against impeachment, against the bipartisan commission, and against the select committee.
He sits on Appropriations and takes eight times the average House member's defense-industry PAC money. On a defense bill that put money into his own district's plants, he found a way to be on both sides.
Tennessee stands to lose an estimated $7 billion from TennCare and has at least nine rural hospitals at risk. Burchett's DOGE subcommittee spent July 21 on Smithsonian exhibits, with witnesses from the Heritage Foundation and Hillsdale College.
H.R. 9610 and H.R. 9611 would move Title I money for poor school districts, rural school funding, teacher-quality grants and college-access programs to the Department of Labor. Both are Mark Harris's.
He represents Huntsville, home to roughly 21,000 federal workers. He told them Space Command and the Iron Dome would make up for whatever DOGE took. Then 279 senior Marshall employees were listed to go.
In 2025 he said 'there's been no communication' and called the people asking 'left-wing liberals' who are 'mad because Trump won.' On July 27, 2026 his opponent invited him to four public forums. A week later, the opponent's campaign said, there had been no reply.