In this episode, Lisa talks with newly sworn-in Senator Tim Sheehy. They explore the Republican party's recent electoral victories, the Senate's confirmation process for President Trump's nominees, and the administration's priorities. Senator Sheehy shares his insights on the inefficiencies of the Senate, attributing delays to Democrat resistance. He expresses optimism about confirming Trump's nominees and praises the administration's decisive early actions. The conversation also touches on military priorities, common-sense policies, and the importance of strong American leadership in global affairs. The Truth with Lisa Boothe is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network - new episodes debut every Monday & Thursday.
It has only been one week and President Trump has already gotten so much done. We are reminded of what it's like to actually have a leader again, to have a commander in chief in office, of what it's like twin to put America first, to be a proper country. And President Trump has flooded the zone. He's flooded the zone with executive order after executive order, everything from securing the southern border and to also just making sure that only the American flag is flown at outposts around the world the way it should be. The message is clear to the rest of the world that America is back and that Donald Trump, our president, is going to put Americans first. So who better to have this conversation with than a former Navy seal, a newly elected senator, someone to really watch.
In the Senate. He's going to be a rising star.
He's also a business owner, and he took out long term Democrat incumbent John Tester in the state of Montana. So we're going to talk to him about this flurry of activity we've seen. It almost feels like we're living through dog years. That's how much she's gone done in one week. I mean it feels like we've already had four years of the Trump administration in one week alone, which is a great sign of what we're going to see for the next four years. But we're going to talk to Senator Tim Sheehey about all of this. We also we did this interview on Friday, so we also talked a little bit about Pete Haigseth, the newly confirmed Secretary of Defense. At the time, he hadn't been confirmed yet. That's always the challenge of doing a podcast twice a week. We tried to stay on top of the news, but sometimes the news it was a little too fast for a twice week podcast. But trust me, this conversation is worthwhile. Senator Tim Sheehey is someone to look out for. He's a rising star and he offers such amazing insight about a variety of issues. So stay tuned for Senator Tim Shehey. Well, Senator well, now I can say, Senator Sheehe, it's.
Great to have you on this show.
Stir. Congratulations I'm being sworn in, And congratulations on victory.
Thank you.
Yeah, it was a big win, and obviously we came off November fifth with a pretty decisive mandate across the Board House, Senate, and the White House popular vote, electoral vote. It's pretty excited. We're getting a lot of stuff done already.
Do you think that your fellow Republicans in the Senate recognize the mandate that you guys have just been given.
They absolutely do.
I mean, Leader Thune, as you've seen the last few days, has made clear that we're going to be here nights, weekends, holidays to get the cabinet in place. Aaron, we are moving as fast as we possibly can. Obviously, the Senate, as you know, by design, is slow as glacial, and for those of us like me who are coming from business and the military, it's kind of frustrating. But at the same time, I think we can see from John Thune and his team they are barrel on full speed ahead to get the cabinet in place as fast as possible so we can get to work.
Absolutely, I mean, but this has been particularly so slow in confirming Trump nominees.
Why has it been so slow?
Bottom line? I mean Democrat resistance.
I mean there, as we saw when Trump won in twenty seventeen, the Democrats kicked off their resistance movement. She'd say, when he won in twenty sixteen, took office in twenty seventeen, the resistance movement was in full swing. Now, the interesting part of what we're seeing this time, Lise, is you know, we're not seeing protests in the streets in DC now, And as you remember in January seventeen, it was it was a you know, cars burning, you know, the Women's March, it was chaos. So that the everyday people of America do not want a resistance movement. They want common sense policies. That's what they voted for, That's what they're expecting. The vast like eighty seven percent of the American people want the border secure and they want us to be deporting criminal legals. So what we're seeing this time is not a popular coast to coast American resistance like we saw last time, fueled by the media. We're seeing this like little corners of resistance coming from the Chuck Schumers of the world who are obsessed with thwarting the agenda. And this time it's not because they disagree with the agenda, is because they're afraid of the agenda being successful and ushering in a generation of dominance for conservative, common sense policies.
Has anything surprised you about your time in the Senate so far.
I'm not sure if it's surprised as it is, just further you know, realization that boy were inefficient.
You know, not much gets done here and now much gets done.
You know, we will sit around for days and days and you know, as you said, we won't get cabinet nominees approved.
And you know it's a lot of backroom dealings.
So I knew that coming in, and I think seeing it in person is frustrating, but it also hastens the need for people like me, you know, young first time officeholders who are going to come in and shake up the system, who don't have you know, baked in loyalties to constituencies and long time political allies. We're here to serve our country and do the best we can to bring common sense back.
Do you think everyone will get confirmed all of Trump's nominees.
Man, I hope, So I think we are. It looks good.
I know that, as everyone knows, there's a handful that are definitely creating resistance. Pete egg Seth and Tulsi are and Cash are top of the list. I happen to know all of them personally, and I'm supporting all them, but I think I think we're going to get them all through. It's it's going to be tough, though.
Yeah, we've already seen President Trump hit the ground running. It is obvious that he means business and he's got a big agenda he wants to work through. You know, we've seen already seen raids on illegal immigrants, criminals that need to get out of the country. We've seen President Trump revoked the security clearances of those fifty one former Intel officers who lie to us and said Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation, despite them knowing it was not. You know, we've seen that only the United States flag can be flown at out US.
Outposts around the world.
So just a lot of like symbolic measures, a lot of important measures. What stood out to you so far and seeing some of these executive orders and these initial initial actions from President Trump, Well.
The first thing was just the decisiveness with which you know, he hit the ground running day one, I think in twenty seventeen, again comparing to his last term, I think.
There was we were surprised about the.
Win, and to a certain extent, there was a little bit of well, you know, the dog caught the bumper, I think in this in this case, it was a far more organized rollout, and that's why we had executive orders across the board rolling out day one. So I think it was very it was very refreshing to see that happen. And of course the speed at which the Senate has snapped into place from the Republican side to get the nominees through.
I mean, in the.
First you know, week and a half, we had twelve nominees out of committee.
So I think the unity has been the most.
Surprising part for me, because you know, that hasn't always been there. Republicans are known for forming circular firing squads and firing at each other. But I think we've seen a lot of coordination between the House of Scent and the White House to make sure that we're on the same page.
We'll see along that lasts, and we'll see how effective it is.
But but thus far, you know, three weeks into all this of the new Congress and obvious these a couple of days into the presidency, we seem to be very aligned and purpose and worldview and execution.
The details, of course, will.
Always cause some trip ups here, but from what I'm hearing is the disagreements are not around objective and mission and execution. They're around some of the details of how we can actually effectively get this done. And I think that's very exciting because instead of having arguments about worldview and what the actual end state is, there more arguments about the parliamentary tactics of what's the best way to get the mission done, not what the mission actually is. And that's important.
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Well, you're a.
Mission focused guy. I mean you're Navy seal.
We've seen our military just completely loose light of the side of the pop plot, you know, focusing on like drag queen story hours and diversity of inclusion as opposed to lethality and recruitment.
What do you think a.
Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense would mean for kind of refocusing the military on our key priorities.
I think it would mean that military would be focused on our key priorities, and the key priorities are fight in win wars.
That is the job of the military.
The job of recruiters in the military is not to recruit, you know, every potential social bucket that creates diversities, to recruit the people who are best able to close with and kill the enemy and protect their nation, protect their families, and fight for America's interests. And you know, if you heard any of my questioning of Pete during his his hearing, you know that's.
What it was focused on. It was focused on.
Ensuring that we get someone at the top of the Department of Defence who is focused on military readiness, combat readiness, and he builds a team around him that is also supported with the same mindset. And now that can come in many ways. That obviously recruiting is key, we need to have the best and brightest in the military. We also have to have the ability to equip them with an industrial supply base that can make things again, that can make bullets and bombs and planes and ships and summarines.
And we do not have that right now. And we've learned that the hard way.
Many of us have been saying it for years, but now I think the everyday American understands too that our defense industrial base is sorely lacking. And that's a key part of our mission because if we have to send hundreds of thousands of young men and women overseas again, sending them over there without bullets, guns, bombs and planes doesn't do much good.
So that's a key part of our readiness.
And you know, the rediness doesn't include you know, you know, green solar power generation projects to make sure our tanks don't run on diesel. It doesn't include you know, DEI initiatives. It doesn't include drag, green story hour. Leadership matters, and priorities matter, and the priority needs to be combat readiness.
I did like your pronoun joke during your questioning of Pete hug Seth.
That didn't make me laugh.
That's good.
Well, it's about time I get something out of this name. I've been stuck with it. Middle school wasn't very fun being called Chihi. So now I'm finally getting a use out of it.
That did make me.
I did laugh out loud during that, So I appreciate that little levity is always appreciated.
You know.
And we've sort of seen this rep prioritization of what's important in all things.
You know.
You've got Christy Gnomes saying that, you know, the priority for the United States is the secure borders, which is crazy that we've not done that over the past four years. And we've talked about Pete seg heg Seth talking about getting back to.
Lethality and recruitment.
You've got Scott Bessant talking about scent, talking about we're not in a climate race with China, We're in an energy race with China. You know, I guess what are you look most looking forward to over these next four years.
Common sense I keep saying it, but honestly, common sense a campaign do it. You know, Americans want a secure borders, safe streets, cheap gas, cops of good criminals are bad boys of boys, girls and girls. And it's not too much for the American people to ask and for them to expect that a government that they've elected, in the government that they pay for every day with their tax dollars, is doing things that are good for them, and doing things that are good for the future of America and putting American businesses first, putting the American border first, putting the American worker first, and as we've seen from the Obama years and put on afterburners during the Biden years. You know, so much of our national policy, domestic and foreign policy, economic policy has been structured around like these goofy like institutionalist, globalist, academic you know thesises where it's like, well, we're going to you know, we're going to tell kids in an elementary school that they can change genders but not tell their parents, and somehow that's a good thing. And you know, we're going to you know, shut down our economy. So everyone can say six feet apart and wear masks. You know, we're going to make sure that we invest in you know, equality in you know, Uganda, but we're not going to make sure that, you know, people in America have enough food on their table. You know, we're going to send billions of dollars of aid to you know, Gaza to ensure that people who are killing American citizens and holding them hostage, you know, have enough food eat. And meanwhile, in America, we have people who don't have homes, they've been burned by wildfire or you know, wh wiped away by a mud slide, who to this day don't have food eat, and sometimes the roof over the head and they're saying, wow, where where's all the focus on me? Where's my aid? Is a tax paying American citizen, how come our government seems to be so focused on the well being of everybody else in this world but not myself? So and you know, that's really the crux of the America First agenda. You know, it's been billed by you know, The Atlantic, of the New York Times and CNN as this you know, isolationist, nationalist, you know, machismo thing, and it's not what America First means is we're going to put the needs of our communities first, our people first. And that's not controversial, that's not crazy, that's not right wing, that is common sense. So that's what I'm excited about. I think that's what America voted for. As we see even in southern California right now, you see liberal actors on their phone saying, how in the world did we let this happen? How have we elected these officials who many of them voted for and donated to, you know, put the needs of the spotted owl and you know, the Eurasian snail fish, and you know the lettuce, you know the lettuce plant. How how the needs of those obscure species been placed above the needs of our communities not to burn to the ground. So that's what I'm most excited about, and I think that's what our messages united around, and that's what American people want.
When I know you've been critical the forest mismanagement in California, and to your point, you know, part of what they do is it's like, oh, look over here at climate change instead of the fact that we're just completely mismanaging or forests or you know that we're mismanaging or water or that. You know, they try to use sort of like these shiny objects to direct people away from the fact that they don't actually know how to govern and they aren't doing their jobs exactly.
I mean, because it's easy to talk about these lofty you know, global initiatives, you know human rights, equality, you know, equity, I should say, because equality is not racist or something. It's about equity. You know, climate change. And that's because how do you create accountability or report card from someone saying those things. You can't And therefore, you know, when they have record high homelessness, when they have record i have violent crime in the streets, when the cities are burning too the ground. Because yes, but we helped increase equity. You know in Ghana, that's where Karen Bass was when her city was burning to the ground. You know, we helped reduce our carbon emissions. Oh but guess what. The wildfires that have burned through California have wiped out a decade of carbon emissions. So you know, all the electric scooters you're driving around apparently have had no impact because the forests you failed to manage, and the fire hydrants you failed to fill and the aircraft you fail to have on standby, all those things that are our actual hard tack management, key performance indicators that you failed at all of them now created one of the largest carbon emitting events in the history of mankind. And now all your carbon emissions that you saved through these idiotic policies are now pointless. So again, people, you can't lie to people forever, sooner or later, with their own eyes, they see the truth, and that is these policies are failing, and they're failing in a very real way.
And you know, the kitchen table issues.
People may be supportive of globalist and issues until you know they can't put food on their kitchen table, until you know they look at their receipts on the kitchen table realize they can't afford to fill up their gas tank anymore. So, kitchen table issues, as we know, these last three and a half years, have been at the forefront of everyone's mind, from crime in the streets out front. You know the average you know American Mom was three years ago where they were focused on abortion. You know that this is a key women's right, that is our number one issue. Well that started to fade pretty quick when crime violent crime spiked all over the nation, and young women said, you know what, that is an important issue to me. Then I do have concerns, but you know what, I'm actually more concerned about being stabbed in the street well as they walk to work. I'm more concerned about my kids being attacked in the street. So safety is key, and the highest duty of any government is to protect its people. And as we saw in la these last few weeks, unfortunately and tragically, we were unable to protect our people.
Well, you know, it's also to protect your people on the world stage as well. And we basically haven't had a president, We've had no leadership over the past four years, and we've already seen just in these initial actions that America's first. You know, he's going to put America first with things like pulling out of the Paris Climate Treaty or pulling out of the World Health Organization. I think the message is pretty clear to the rest of the world.
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A new shop from down of course, I mean before he even took office, we saw you know, Hamas asking for you know, a ceasefire agreement. You know, before he even took office, we're already seeing China adjust its rhetoric around around invading Taiwan.
We saw Iran immediately back off.
It's very muscular and aggressive support for its proxy groups that have been wreaking havoc in the region. So even before taking office, the message that America First policies are back has already put our adversaries, you know, on their on their on their on their heels. And of course it's just preposterous to hear sit around and here, you know, our academic elites and our Democrat colleagues talk about, you know what a foreign policy disaster.
I think I saw. I don't never read The Atlantic because I don't want to get dumber as I read, But sometimes I do occasions for the best.
Sometimes I do occasionally proves their headlines, just because it's fun to see what they say to themselves every day to make themselves feel better.
And one of us, you know, the headline in the.
Glazos said something get ready for a foreign policy calamity, And of course the point of the piece was Donald Trump's going to usher into foreign policy chaos era. It's like, what the hell do you call the last four years? You know, I mean our longest war, which is what got me into politics. I never wanted to do this job, never run friending before in my life. Not he was student council. But like watching Afghanistan War, I fought and my wife fought into a marine, you know, I.
Lost friends there. Uh, seeing that war just walked away.
From and the disastrous collapse of that which started the domino effect of Iran realizing that they were going to be unimpeded anywhere they went. So of course they kicked off from the who the rebels, to Hamas to Hesbla, regional conflicts all over. Of course, Putin said, well, it's a free reign now, and of course obamall let him cross red line after redline, so he went ahead and kicked off with Ukraine. China knew they could start fluxing their muscle in earth, Korea could cent troops wherever they wanted. So I don't know what you call the last three and a half years other than a foreign policy disaster. And of course what Trump's bringing back in is the policy that you know, when America makes decisions when it comes to foreign policy, We're going to do something extremely controversial. We're going to put our interests first. My god, you know who thought of that. I mean, that's what every other country in the history of the world has been doing for thousands of years, is you go to negotiating table and you decide what's best for my country, and I'm going to do whatever it takes to get that. That's how it's always worked, that's how business works. And for some reason, you know, the Obama Biden you know, even go back to Carter.
You know, this whole mindset of you know, what our duty is actually to the rest of the world.
We're just going to give things away like the Panama Canal because it makes.
Us feel good about ourselves.
All these academics, you know, will gently give us a golf clap after we do it and write great articles about us. Well, guess what, you know, the impacts of those policies aren't felt, you know in the wood paneled halls of Yale and Harvard. You know, they're felt in the halls of you know, manufacturing plants in America that shut down. You know, they're felt, you know, in the in the cab of a tractor that's trying to keep a farm going because you know, prices are out of control. They're felt by the families at Dover Air Force Base who see their young sons and daughters get brought home in boxes because of idiotic decisions made by idiotic people. So we're done, We're past that. We're going to bring common sense back. We're going to put our country first. And and you know, oddly enough, Lisa, here's the crazy thing. When America puts its own own interest first, the rest of the world benefits because the rest of the world benefits from a strong America economically, security wise, the whole world actually likes when we are strong and assertive because that keeps the rest of the world and the bad actors in check. So in this effort to like, you know, make everyone in the world happy and give them, you know, give away things all the time, we actually have sown chaos all over the world. By having a clear, consistent, and prioritized approach to global affairs that puts our interests, our economy, and our people first.
The rest of the world is better off.
Aymen, Well we're going to leave it there, well said senator. Appreciate you, appreciate your time, Glad you're in the Senate, and congratulations. I'm sure being sworn in has got to be a pretty cool experience, so we appreciate you and congratulations.
Right. Well, great to talk to you again. I'm sure we'll be on again soon. Take care.
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