Who?
Rep. William Timmons (R-SC) — Chair, House Oversight Subcommittee on Military & Foreign Affairs
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Ask a Pol asks:
How do you think the April 29th hearing went?
ICYMI — Timmons chaired April 29 Oversight hearing
Key Timmons:
“It was great. You know, we got a problem,” Rep. William Timmons exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “The shortest version: we have a problem.”
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Caught our ear:
“This is a sufficiently important issue that we're gonna have conversations about this,” Timmons tells us. “There’ll probably be a follow-up hearing next year.”
Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Rep. William Timmons (R-SC), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Rep. William Timmons (4-30-2025)
SCENE: Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo finds Rep. William Timmons walking to the Capitol the day after he chaired the April 29th hearing…
Matt Laslo: “How do you think that hearing went this week? On the…”
William Timmons: “On the drones?”
ML: “Yeah. I heard…”
WT: “It was great. You know, we got a problem.”
ML: “Yeah?”
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WT: “The shortest version: we have a problem.”
ML: “Isn’t it staggering — like, I think you brought it up — watching Chinese New Year?”
WT: “The Chinese New Year was terrifying. It was awesome, but it was terrifying.”
ML: “Like, if you point that at one of our ships and boom.”
WT: “Well, I mean, look, if they're all kamikaze drones and they're autonomous…”
ML: “That's what we're seeing in Ukraine!”
WT: “Well, I mean Ukraine, I think, is a little part of it.”
WT: “Yeah?”
WT: “But, like, you could literally train those drones to only kill people that look like me.”
ML: “Yeah, right?”
WT: “You can say, you know, avoid asians.”
ML: “I've seen Olympus Has Fallen.”
Laslo laughs; Timmons doens’t.
WT: “Well, it’s not that, you know…”
ML: “No. It’s reality now.”
WT: “There's so little that, I mean, you know, you can just put some, the equivalent of a really small grenade…”
ML: “Yeah?”
WT: “…and just kamikaze drones. You know how much those cost? A thousands bucks?”
ML: “Right?”
WT: “So you get a million of those. Like, woah.”
ML: “Do you want — like, without the FAA there, it kind of felt just a little bit limp.”
WT: “Yeah. We were sad that we couldn't get them in.”
ML: “Yeah?”
WT: “We're sending them a list tonight 30 questions, so we're gonna get some. I don't think that's the end.”
ML: “Yeah?”
WT: “I mean, I think that this is a sufficiently important issue that we're gonna have conversations about this. I mean, there’ll probably be a follow-up hearing next year.”
ML: “Yeah? I will be watchin.”
Timmons walking away from laslo towards elevator.
ML: “As always, preciate ya.”
