GOPer confronted on CNN with colleague calling him an 'arsonist' willing to burn everything down

During an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union," one of the House Republicans who is making House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's life a living hell, was confronted by host Dana Bash with one of his colleagues calling him an "arsonist."

Settling in to talk about the looming budget crisis that will shut the government down because a handful of far-right Republicans -- led by Rep Matt Gaetz (R-FL) -- are holding their caucus hostage, host Bash put Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) on the spot.

"I want you to listen to something that your fellow Republican Congressman Garret Graves of Louisiana said yesterday," Bash began before rolling a clip of Graves proclaiming, "The arsonists have lit their house on fire and they're whining about their house burning. They're going to want credit for putting the fire out and they'll set up a GoFundMe to get paid for what happened."

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"This is a fellow House Republican saying, not only are you unreasonable, you're like an arsonist.," Bash bluntly told the Tennessee Republican.

"Well, Garret, he's close to the speaker and I get that," Burchett replied dismissively. "He's a buddy of mine, but ma'am, we take in $5 trillion a year and folks like Garret want to continue spending over $7 trillion a year, I don't know where that ever works anywhere, only in Washington, D.C."

"I'm from east Tennessee, I know you're a Jersey girl," he addressed the CNN hoist, "Hard-working people, ma'am. and they have budgets and we ought to get a budget and stick to it."

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