Interview: Montana’s Tim Sheehy Tells it Like it is: GOP is Going to “Get Shit Done”
The Lowdown:
Sen. Tim Sheehy says the “entire” GOP is aligned and looking to “get shit done” on budget reconciliation and on securing the border.
Sheehy blasted the Democrats as being in “full flail” after being “routed” in November, even after they played the “personal character assassination” and “actual assassination” playbooks.
The Montana Republican said that “Americans who have voted Democrat their whole lives” are moving to the GOP over the recent revelations of USAID funding.
Sheehy noted that “instead of coalescing around a message of policy that will resonate with Americans,” the Democrats are “doing this frantic, flailing resistance defending billions of dollars going to,” in some cases, literal terrorists.
Deep in the grasslands of Montana, a valiant battle was fought for the soul of our nation. Emerging victorious over a long-time Democrat senator was Sen. Tim Sheehy (R., Mont.) in his “first time ever in government.”
Sheehy, a Navy lieutenant and Purple Heart veteran, enters the Senate as a tour de force, telling the Washington Reporter in an interview that “we’ve got to bring common sense back to our government” as well as return “lethality and combat readiness to our military.” He also said kitchen table issues like wildfire management are on the docket for him.
“We really let down the American people for far too long. We’ve wasted their money, we’ve misaligned priorities, we sent too many young Americans to die in places we never intended to win,” Sheehy said. “As we’re seeing in the past couple weeks, we’ve had a bureaucracy that’s completely run amok, and that’s a bipartisan issue.”
Sheehy also blasted the Democrats’ “feigned outrage,” noting they have “spent plenty of time in the past two decades also saying that our government has been acting unconstitutionally.”
“We’ve got to bring the common sense back to this government. I think that’s the most important thing,” Sheehy said. “And that means putting America first. That means we should be making decisions and doing things that are good for our people. It’s that simple.”
When it comes to budget reconciliation and border security, Sheehy told the Reporter that everyone in the GOP “is aligned” and that the GOP wants “to get shit done.” The Montana Republican said his “entire party” wants to make the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent, “get spending under control,” and “pass comprehensive border security and immigration reform.”
“It’s really a question, not of mission, but of procedure and how it’s going to get done,” Sheehy said. “And all I can tell you is pretty much every day it sounds like there’s a different plan in place, so we’ll just have to see. And I’m sure by lunchtime tomorrow, we’ll hear a new plan that outlines the new approach to it.”
“But it seems to be coalescing between one and two bills,” he added.
Sheehy said that he is a “free enterprise guy and that, while he disagrees with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies in the private workforce, that decision is up to a company.” But he does not believe that the American people should be paying for government DEI policies.
“What I do not agree with is the American people pay for that in any way, diverting funding from readiness that makes our troops ready to fight and kill the enemy, being diverted to anything other than that. So what really concerns me, though, is when we see top-down directives within the DOD, within our branches of the military, that are prioritizing these kind of woke directives over combat lethality. And whether that’s quotas for women, or minorities, or gender identity training, whatever it is, any focus that’s not literally focused on honing warfighter readiness and winning wars is a distraction and needs to go away.”
Sheehy said he believes America is seeing this shift under President Donald Trump and his administration and that Americans “will see a lot of the same coming from Congress by telling our military, ‘Listen, we haven’t won a war since the first Gulf War.’”
“It’s been a rough 30 years, we spent trillions of dollars and lost thousands of lives for little to no gain,” Sheehy continued. “It’s about time we take this responsibility with the seriousness that we should, which is we have the lives of young Americans in our hands and we owe it to them to give them the tools they need and the clarity in policy they need to come home alive and victorious.”
Turning to the Senate Democrats’ slow-rolling of Trump’s cabinet nominees over the recent USAID revelations, Sheehy said the blue party is “in full flail.”
“They were routed in the election. They lost the presidency, they lost the House, they lost the Senate, and they lost all of those in the face of a massive three-to-one national funding advantage with 90 percent of the media just hammering all the Republican candidates with lies, smears,” Sheehy said.
“They played their personal character assassination playbook. They played the actual assassination playbook,” the Montana Republican continued. “Everything that they could do, from court rooms to bullets to hit piece stories, they tried to destroy every Republican candidate on the ballot this cycle. And, guess what?”
“They got their ass kicked,” Sheehy said. “And I think what they’re trying to do now is find a message, find some sort of message to keep themselves relevant, because they have witnessed one of the greatest electoral defeats in the history of American politics.”
Sheehy noted that, “instead of coalescing around a message of policy that will resonate with Americans,” the Democrats are “doing this frantic, flailing resistance defending billions of dollars going to terrorist safehavens, going to gender studies in Sudan, going to condoms for the Taliban.”
“And they’re defending the indefensible, and exactly what they’re doing now is exactly why they lost the election in November. Because the regular, everyday Americans, Americans who have voted Democrat their whole lives, union pipe fitters, union truck drivers, union factory workers who have been the base of the Democratic Party for generations have said, ‘you know what? I’m pretty sick of hearing about transgender DEI policies in Africa, I want to know why my groceries are so expensive. I want to know why gas is so expensive. I want to know why we have millions of illegal immigrants driving up crime in my community. I want common sense policies.’”
“‘The Democrats are talking about why it’s my moral obligation to let boys play on my girls’ sports teams, and why there is a man with hairy balls walking through my girls’ locker room? That is crazy,’” Sheehy continued. “‘And guess what? One party is talking about common sense policies and one party is talking about crazy shit. So I’m going to vote for the common sense people because I want my life back.’”
The Montana Republican told the Reporter that he believes what the Democrats “are doing right now is an extension of the same.”
“I think it’s entirely idiotic, but I welcome them to keep doing it, because, guess what, the American people don’t like looking at the USAID ledger and seeing billions of dollars of their hard-earned tax money being sent to countries that hate us,” Sheehy added.
