Tennessee Republican Rep. Tim Burchett spoke to FOX News on Monday where he asserted that Congress is “compromised” on cutting spending.

He argued that every Congress member has some family member or friend that benefits from government funding, which is why Congress is reluctant to cut spending.

“I don’t think I’ve ever voted for a debt ceiling increase. You’re seeing more money going up in debt than I’ll earn this year by the time I finish this thought even, but every 100 days, we add another trillion dollars to the debt. We better start taking it serious. As I said on X, I tweeted at the Tim Burchett account, I had over a million views that the problem is going to be with the votes in that room. It wasn’t with Elon or Vivek,” Burchett began.

“It was going to be the members having enough guts to do what’s right and make those cuts. That remains to be seen. We do this every time. Everybody goes home and preaches to their people and throws out the red meat, and they come back to Washington and they sell our country down the river. I’m hoping that’ll change, and I hope Trump cleans it up, because we’ve got to do something,” he said.

“You’ve got so many people that are embedded in these things, and they’re compromised. Let’s just be honest. They’ve got investments. They’ve got family members. They have a wife and or a girlfriend that works for some contractor or some lobbyist on K Street or some organization that’s going to get some funding. We’ll wink at the Senate and we’ll say, we’re going to make all these cuts,” Burchett complained.

“Then the Senate will say, we’re going to make all these cuts. Guess what? They don’t line up. Then we come back and don’t do anything. That’s the trick they’re going to play. Let’s just cut and keep cutting. We talked about cutting the Department of Education, and everybody freaks out. We’re not talking about cutting the money to the states. Send the money to the states,” the Tennessee Republican concluded.