Tenure
In March 2024, Burchett was one of 10 House Republicans who signed a letter to the House Agriculture Committee opposing the inclusion of the Ending Agriculture Trade Suppression (EATS) Act in the 2024 farm bill. The EATS Act would have invalidated state and local laws regulating agricultural goods sold in interstate commerce, including farm animal welfare laws like California's Proposition 12. The letter argued that the legislation would undermine states' rights and cede control over U.S. agricultural policy to the Chinese-owned pork producer WH Group and its subsidiary Smithfield Foods.
In June 2021, Burchett was one of 49 House Republicans to vote to repeal the AUMF against Iraq.
Burchett voted against the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020 which authorizes DHS to nearly double the available H-2B visas for the remainder of FY 2020.
Burchett voted against the Consolidated Appropriations Act (H.R. 1158), which effectively prohibits Immigration and Customs Enforcement from cooperating with the Department of Health and Human Services to detain or remove illegal alien sponsors of Unaccompanied Alien Children.
During the 118th congressional speakership Election, Representative Matt Gaetz and a handful of other representatives were holdouts in voting for Rep. Kevin McCarthy for speaker. Burchett voted for McCarthy on every ballot. While people claimed that after Burchett walked over and whispered into Gaetz's ear, Gaetz and others abstained, giving a majority to McCarthy for speaker, Gaetz had in fact begun abstaining before this conversation.
Burchett voted to provide Israel with support following October 7 attacks.
Following a report published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on January 12, 2023, Burchett expressed his views about an alleged government coverup of the nature of UFOs, saying, "we've been covering this up since the '40s" and that he does not "trust [the] government, [and] there's an arrogance about it, and I think the American public can handle it."
On March 7, 2023, Burchett expanded on these claims, saying that UFO technology is possibly "being reverse-engineered right now" but we "don't understand" how it functions. He maintains that the U.S. has "recovered a craft at some point, and possible beings". In January 2025 Burchett claimed that aliens have secret underwater bases. Burchett was one of the members of Congress interviewed in The Age of Disclosure (2025), a documentary film about UFOs and claimed government programs involving recovery of alien technology crashed on Earth.
On March 28, 2023, Burchett responded to the Covenant School shooting, where three nine-year-old students and three staff members were killed in Nashville, by telling reporters: "It's a horrible, horrible situation, and we're not going to fix it. Criminals are gonna be criminals. And my daddy fought in the second world war, fought in the Pacific, fought the Japanese, and he told me, he said, 'Buddy,' he said, 'if somebody wants to take you out, and doesn't mind losing their life, there's not a whole heck of a lot you can do about it.'" Burchett also said he sees no "real role" for Congress in reducing gun violence, other than to "mess things up".
After a local D.J. was killed and 22 others were wounded in the 2024 Kansas City parade shooting, Burchett inaccurately identified an adult attendee of the Kansas City rally, Denton Loudermill Jr., as the shooter, claiming he was an "illegal alien". Burchett's social media post received 1.4 million views. In March 2024, the falsely identified man sued Burchett for $75,000 in damages. The lawsuit, which Loudermill had filed in a Kansas court, was dismissed in September 2024 due to lack of jurisdiction, considering the case had "nothing really to do with Kansas."
In April 2023, Burchett was one of only four Republican representatives who voted against the proposed Limit, Save, Grow Act, which raised the debt ceiling while at the same time providing for cuts to non-mandatory spending, claiming he could not support any debt limit raise which did not provide fully balanced budget.
In June of the same year, Burchett was among the 71 Republicans who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 in the House.
On October 3, 2023, Burchett was one of eight Republicans who voted to remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House. He said his yes vote was "sealed" after McCarthy allegedly made a "condescending" remark about his religious beliefs during a phone call. McCarthy said that he did not intend to upset Burchett.
In October 2024, Burchett told a Fox News radio station that George Soros is "a money changer of the worst kind" who "will destroy this country." The term money changer has been associated with antisemitic stereotypes. Burchett denied that his criticism of Soros, who is Jewish, was antisemitic, saying that "my voting record clearly reflects my support for Israel and the Jewish people."
Despite their highly contrasting positions on most issues, Burchett maintains a friendship with progressive representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whom he met during freshmen orientation as a new representative in 2019 at the beginning of the 116th United States Congress.
Tim Burchett was opposed to U.S. military intervention against Iran, calling Senators Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz "war pimps" for their advocacy for bombing Iran. Burchett said there was no "just cause" for military intervention, stating "I just don't see American boys and girls going to a faraway land that many of us couldn't even find on a map. Again, the Israelis can handle this thing. Let's let them handle it." However, after President Trump ordered strikes on Iranian nuclear sites in 2025, Burchett endorsed Trump's decision, saying that Trump had made the "right move".
During the 2026 Iran War, Burchett said he opposed the deployment of ground troops to Iran. "I wish it was over tomorrow. Yesterday, actually," Burchett said in April 2026. However, Burchett voted against a resolution that would have forced President Trump to cease military operations against Iran absent congressional approval.
Despite voting for the initial version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Burchett was unhappy with the legislation, saying he was worried it would result in higher deficit spending. He said he would probably not vote for the final version of the law. Following personal lobbying from President Trump, who told Burchett he liked seeing him on TV and gave him signed merchandise, Burchett voted for the final version of the bill.
Burchett, alongside Marjorie Taylor Greene, introduced a bill that would ban cloud seeding used for weather modification. The subject of the bill alluded to the disproven chemtrail conspiracy theory. Burchett said he would tell skeptics of the existence of chemtrails; "If it doesn't exist, then you don't have anything to worry about."
Burchett was one of the original 16 cosponsors of the Restore Trust in Congress Act (H.R.5106), introduced on September 3, 2025, by Republican Chip Roy of Texas. The act, a bipartisan effort to ban members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning and trading stocks, had 119 cosponsors as of December 2025.
In November 2025, during an interview with Benny Johnson, Burchett said that Thomas Crooks, who tried and failed to kill Donald Trump during the 2024 United States presidential election, had been programmed to do so by the American "deep state". Burchett suggested that MKUltra, a defunct CIA brainwashing program, had been used to "program" Crooks into an assassin. Burchett said that commentary by Tucker Carlson had inspired his theory, and claimed that evidence for the theory had been destroyed.
